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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Using embedded fonts with the Panel container in Flex

by Peter deHaan on February 28, 2008

in Embed, Panel

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Panel container so that a Panel container can be rotated or faded without the text “disappearing”. The trick here is to set the panel’s titleStyleName style to a custom style which sets the font family to the embedded font.

Full code after the jump.

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Displaying the sort arrow in a Flex DataGrid control without having to click a column

by Peter deHaan on February 28, 2008

in DataGrid, Sort, SortField

I’ve seen this question come up a few times recently in various forums/lists and even in my blog comments (see “Changing the default sort arrow skin on a Flex DataGrid control”).

The following example shows how you can display the sort arrow in a DataGrid control in Flex without having the user click on a column header in the DataGrid control.

Full code after the jump.

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