The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on a Flex LinkButton control by setting the cornerRadius style.
Full code after the jump.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/09/02/setting-the-corner-radius-of-a-linkbutton-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application name="LinkButton_cornerRadius_test"
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="cornerRadius:">
<mx:HSlider id="slider"
minimum="0"
maximum="10"
value="4"
snapInterval="1"
tickInterval="1"
liveDragging="false" />
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
</mx:ApplicationControlBar>
<mx:LinkButton id="linkButton"
label="LinkButton"
cornerRadius="{slider.value}" />
<mx:Label text="Roll over the link button to see corner radius" />
</mx:Application>
View source is enabled in the following example.
You can also set the cornerRadius style in an external .CSS file or <mx:Style /> block, as seen in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/09/02/setting-the-corner-radius-of-a-linkbutton-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application name="LinkButton_cornerRadius_test"
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical"
verticalAlign="middle"
backgroundColor="white">
<mx:Style>
LinkButton {
cornerRadius: 10;
}
</mx:Style>
<mx:LinkButton id="linkButton"
label="LinkButton" />
<mx:Label text="Roll over the link button to see corner radius" />
</mx:Application>
Or, you can set the cornerRadius style in ActionScript, as seen in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/09/02/setting-the-corner-radius-of-a-linkbutton-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application name="LinkButton_cornerRadius_test"
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical"
verticalAlign="middle"
backgroundColor="white">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.events.SliderEvent;
private function slider_change(evt:SliderEvent):void {
linkButton.setStyle("cornerRadius", evt.value);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
<mx:Form styleName="plain">
<mx:FormItem label="cornerRadius:">
<mx:HSlider id="slider"
minimum="0"
maximum="10"
value="4"
snapInterval="1"
tickInterval="1"
liveDragging="false"
change="slider_change(event);" />
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
</mx:ApplicationControlBar>
<mx:LinkButton id="linkButton"
label="LinkButton" />
<mx:Label text="Roll over the link button to see corner radius" />
</mx:Application>

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Seriously? Why not an example on how to change a color, by using the color property?
So I was googling this problem and came across your post. Thanks for showing how you solved it step by step. Flash behaves way differently in Firefox Beta (for me at least).