The following example shows how you can set the border thickness on a Flex NumericStepper control by setting the borderThickness style.

The borderThickness style is only supported when the borderStyle style is set to “solid”.

Full code after the jump.

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/05/27/setting-the-border-thickness-on-a-numericstepper-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="borderThickness:">
                <mx:HSlider id="slider"
                        minimum="0"
                        maximum="10"
                        value="1"
                        snapInterval="1"
                        tickInterval="1"
                        liveDragging="true" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <mx:NumericStepper id="numericStepper"
            borderStyle="solid"
            borderThickness="{slider.value}" />

</mx:Application>

View source is enabled in the following example.

You can also set the borderThickness style in an external .CSS file or <mx:Style /> block, as seen in the following example:

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/05/27/setting-the-border-thickness-on-a-numericstepper-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Style>
        NumericStepper {
            borderStyle: solid;
            borderThickness: 10;
        }
    </mx:Style>

    <mx:NumericStepper id="numericStepper" />

</mx:Application>

Or, you can set the borderThickness style using ActionScript, as seen in the following example:

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/05/27/setting-the-border-thickness-on-a-numericstepper-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.events.SliderEvent;

            private function init():void {
                numericStepper.setStyle("borderStyle", "solid");
            }

            private function slider_change(evt:SliderEvent):void {
                numericStepper.setStyle("borderThickness", evt.value);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="borderThickness:">
                <mx:HSlider id="slider"
                        minimum="0"
                        maximum="10"
                        value="1"
                        snapInterval="1"
                        tickInterval="1"
                        liveDragging="true"
                        change="slider_change(event);" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <mx:NumericStepper id="numericStepper"
            initialize="init();" />

</mx:Application>
 
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Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

One Response to Setting the border thickness on a NumericStepper control in Flex

  1. Have been looking to do this for a while, thanks for sharing

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