Creating a linear gradient stroke on a Rect object in Flex Gumbo

By On December 31, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a linear gradient stroke on a Flex Gumbo Rect object by setting the stroke property to a LinearGradientStroke object.

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Maintaining an video’s aspect ratio on a VideoDisplay control in Flex

By On December 30, 2008 · 1 Comment

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

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Determining the length of an FLV video using the VideoDisplay control in Flex

By On December 29, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine the length of an FLV video (in seconds) using the Flex VideoDisplay control by using the totalTime property.

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Toggling data tips on the HSlider control in Flex

By On December 28, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle data tips on the Flex HSlider control by setting the Boolean showDataTips property.

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Preventing a user from clicking the track on an HSlider control in Flex

By On December 27, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can prevent a user from clicking on the track of a Flex HSlider control by setting the Boolean allowTrackClick property.

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Setting the label offset on a VSlider control in Flex

By On December 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the label offset on a Flex VSlider control by setting the labelOffset style.

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Setting the label offset on an HSlider control in Flex

By On December 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the label offset on a Flex HSlider control by setting the labelOffset style.

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Setting the focal point on a Rect object in Flex Gumbo

By On December 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the focal point on a Flex Gumbo Rect object by setting the focalPointRatio property to a value between -1 and +1.

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Setting the origin X and Y coordinate for a radial gradient fill in Flex Gumbo

By On December 24, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Creating a radial gradient fill on a Rect object in Flex Gumbo”, we saw how you could create a radial gradient fill on a Flex Gumbo Rect object by setting the fill property to a RadialGradient object.

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Creating a radial gradient fill on a Rect object in Flex Gumbo

By On December 23, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating a linear gradient fill on an Ellipse object in Flex Gumbo”, we saw you could create a linear gradient fill on a Flex Gumbo Ellipse object by setting the fill property to a LinearGradient object.

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Setting the text justification on a TextBox object in Flex Gumbo

By On December 22, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the type of text justification on a Flex Gumbo TextBox object by setting the textJustify style to one of the static constants in the flashx.textLayout.formats.TextJustify class.

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Using a custom flex-config.xml file in Flex Builder 3

By On December 21, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a custom configuration file in a Flex Builder Flex project by specifying an additional compiler argument, -load-config.

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