Determining if an item is listening for a specific event

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can check whether a Flex Button control is listening for a specific event (FlexEvent.BUTTON_DOWN) by using the hasEventListener() and willTrigger() methods.

According to the Flex 3 documentation for the EventDispatcher class’s hasEventListener() method (link):

The difference between hasEventListener() and willTrigger() is that hasEventListener() examines only the object [...]

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Changing the default skins on a Button control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can modify the default skins for the Flex Button control by setting the skin, upSkin, overSkin, downSkin, and disabledSkin styles.

Full code after the jump.

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