2008 June | Flex Examples

Playing a sound effect when a ProgressBar control completes in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 30, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a complete effect on a ProgressBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could apply an effect that plays once a Flex ProgressBar control completes (reaches 100%).

The following code shows how you can play an embedded sound effect once a Flex ProgressBar control completes using the mx.effects SoundEffect [...]

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Setting a complete effect on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 29, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can add a complete effect on a Flex Image control by setting the completeEffect effect using MXML, CSS, or ActionScript.

Full code after the jump.

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Preventing an image from automatically loading in an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can prevent the Flex Image control to automatically loading an image when setting the Image control’s source property by setting the autoLoad property to false and then explicitly loading the image using the load() method.

Full code after the jump.

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Maintaining an image’s aspect ratio on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can maintain a loaded image’s original aspect ratio on a Flex Image control by setting the maintainAspectRatio property.

Full code after the jump.

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Detecting when the source changes on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 27, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when the source property has changed on a Flex Image control using the sourceChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

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Detecting when the label placement changes on a Button control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 26, 2008 · 1 Comment

In an earlier example, “Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property”, we saw how you can set a Flex Button control’s label placement using the labelPlacement property.

The following example shows how you can detect when the labelPlacement property has changed using the labelPlacementChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

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Detecting when the label changes on a Button control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex Button control’s label changes using the labelChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

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Detecting when a RadioButtonGroup has been enabled or disabled in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Enabling and disabling RadioButton controls in a RadioButtonGroup in Flex”, we saw how you can enable or disable all of the RadioButton controls in a Flex RadioButtonGroup by setting the enabled property.

The following example shows how you can detect when the enabled property changes by using the enabledChanged event.

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Detecting a double click on a TextInput control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 24, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when a user double clicks a Flex TextInput control using the doubleClick event.

Full code after the jump.

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Disabling keyboard navigation on the RadioButton control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 23, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can disable keyboard navigation within a Flex RadioButton/RadioButtonGroup by extending the RadioButton class and overriding the protected keyDownHandler() method.

Full code after the jump.

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