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

By Peter deHaan On April 20, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the horizontal spacing between items in a Flex LinkBar control by setting the horizontalGap style.

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Setting the separator color on a LinkBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the color of the item separators in a Flex LinkBar control by setting the separatorColor style.

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Setting the background alpha on a VideoDisplay control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the background color on a VideoDisplay control in Flex”, we saw how you could modify the background color of a VideoDisplay control in Flex by setting the backgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Flex VideoDisplay control by setting the backgroundAlpha [...]

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Setting the background color on a VideoDisplay control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 18, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can modify the background color of a Flex VideoDisplay control by setting the backgroundColor style.

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Adding links to a Panel container’s status text in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 17, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can assign an HTML formatted string to a Panel container’s status text field using the getStatusTextField() method in the mx_internal namespace.

 

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Removing items from a Flex DataGrid control using the DragManager class

By Peter deHaan On April 16, 2008 · 12 Comments

The following example shows how you can drag an item from a Flex DataGrid control onto an Image control to remove the item from a data provider.

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Creating a view cursor on an ArrayCollection in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 15, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a view cursor to find a specific item within an ArrayCollection.

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Calling a simple web service from Flex using the WebService class

By Peter deHaan On April 14, 2008 · 38 Comments

The following example shows how you can call a ColdFusion Web Service from Flex using the <mx:WebService /> tag.

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Creating a pop up TitleWindow using the PopUpButton control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 13, 2008 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a pop up TitleWindow container using the Flex PopUpButton control.

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Changing the focus rectangle color on a TextInput control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 12, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the focus rectangle color for a Flex TextInput control by setting the themeColor style.

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Getting JavaScript variables into your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API

By Peter deHaan On April 11, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows an easy way to get JavaScript variables into your Flex applications without having to write a single line of JavaScript or edit your HTML template using the Flash Player ExternalInterface API.

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Removing the track skin from a List control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can remove the track skin from a Flex List control by setting the trackSkin style to null.

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