Determining when the DateField control is opened or closed in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 30, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can determine when the Flex DateField control’s is opened or closed by listening for the open or close events.

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Detecting when the user changes the selected month in the DateChooser control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 29, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when the user changes the selected month in the Flex DateChooser control by listening for the scroll event.

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Aligning the selected date in a DateField control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 28, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows you how you can align the selected date in the Flex DateField control’s text field by setting the textAlign style.

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Setting a custom tool tip field on a ButtonBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 27, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can specify a custom field to be used for a tool tip in a Flex ButtonBar control by setting the toolTipField property.

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Setting the disabled text color on a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text color on an enabled and disabled Flex TextArea control by setting the color and disabledColor styles.

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Setting text selection on a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 25, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the selected text in a Flex TextArea control by using the setSelection() method.

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Condensing HTML white space in the RichTextEditor control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 24, 2008 · 7 Comments

In a previous example, “Condensing HTML white space in the TextArea control in Flex”, we looked at how you could condense HTML formatted text in a TextArea control by setting the condenseWhite property.

The following example shows you how you can condense white space around HTML tags using the Flex RichTextEditor control, the htmlText [...]

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Condensing HTML white space in the TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 24, 2008 · 11 Comments

The following example shows you how you can condense white space around HTML tags using the Flex TextArea control, the htmlText property, and the condenseWhite property.

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Sequencing effects in Flex using the mx:Sequence tag (redux)

By Peter deHaan On April 23, 2008 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Sequencing effects in Flex using the mx:Sequence tag”, we saw how you could sequence tween effects using the <mx:Sequence /> tag.

The following example shows how you can create the same sequenced effects using ActionScript instead of MXML.

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Setting the letter spacing in the RichTextEditor control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 22, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the letter spacing in a Flex RichTextEditor control by setting the textAreaStyleName and letterSpacing styles.

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Looping over each item in an Array in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On April 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can loop over an Array object and modify items using the Array class’s forEach() method.

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Setting the vertical spacing between items in a LinkBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 20, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the horizontal spacing between items in a LinkBar control in Flex”, we saw how to change the horizontal spacing between items in a Flex LinkBar control by setting the horizontalSpacing style.

The following example shows how you can set the vertical spacing between items in a vertical Flex LinkBar [...]

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