Smoothing images using the BitmapGraphic object in Flex Gumbo

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

The following example shows how you can smooth a Flex Gumbo BitmapGraphic object by setting the Boolean smooth property.

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Setting the content background color on a Spark TextInput control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 19, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the content background color of a Flex Gumbo Spark TextInput control by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

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Setting the digit case on a TextBox object in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the digit case on a Flex Gumbo TextBox object by setting the digitCase style.

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Setting tracking on a TextBox object in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 17, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the left and/or right tracking on a Flex Gumbo TextBox object by setting the trackingLeft and trackingRight styles.

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Replacing carriage returns and line feeds with newline characters using Regular Expressions

By Peter deHaan On December 16, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can use Regular Expressions to globally replace carriage returns and line feeds with the newline character (“\n”) in a string using Flex.

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Detecting when the data provider of a DataGrid control changes in Flex

By Peter deHaan On December 16, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine when the data provider of a Flex DataGrid control changes by listening for the collectionChange event (using the CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE constant).

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Controlling text justification on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can control the text spacing on justified text on the Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the textJustify style.

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Setting the resize mode on a Spark BitmapImage object in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 14, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the resize mode on a Flex Gumbo BitmapO,age object by setting the resizeMode property to one of the static constants in the BitmapImageResizeMode class.

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Repeating the fill on a BitmapGraphic object in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can repeat/tile the fill on a Flex Gumbo BitmapGraphic object by setting the repeat property.

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Displaying a bold font style on a TextBox control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can specify a bold font style on a device and embedded font on a Flex Gumbo TextBox control by setting the fontWeight style.
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Displaying an italic font style on a TextBox control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can specify an italic font style on a device and embedded font on a Flex Gumbo TextBox control by setting the fontStyle style.

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Using the Flash FLVPlayback control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On December 11, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the Flash FLVPlayback component that ships with Flash CS3 and Flash CS4 by copying the FLVPlaybackAS3.swc file into your Flex project’s /libs/ folder.

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