Setting tab stops in a TextView control in Flex Gumbo

The following example shows how you can set the tab stops in a Flex Gumbo TextView control by setting the tabStops property using a string-based shorthand.

Full code after the jump.

To use the following code, you must have Flash Player 10 and a Flex Gumbo SDK installed in your Flex Builder 3. For more information on downloading and installing the Gumbo SDK into Flex Builder 3, see “Using the beta Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3″.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/01/13/setting-tab-stops-in-a-textview-control-in-flex-gumbo/ -->
<Application name="TextView_tabStops_test"
        xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <Form styleName="plain">
            <FormItem label="Toggle grid lines:">
                <CheckBox id="checkBox" selected="false" />
            </FormItem>
        </Form>
    </ApplicationControlBar>

    <Canvas backgroundColor="white">
        <TextView id="textView"
                tabStops="S0 C100 E200 D270"
                width="300">
            <content>
                <p>1.The<tab/>1.Quick<tab/>1.Brown<tab/>$123.456</p>
                <p>2.Fox<tab/>2.Jumps<tab/>2.Over<tab/>$24.7</p>
                <p>3.The<tab/>3.Lazy<tab/>3.Dog<tab/>$7.11</p>
            </content>
        </TextView>
        <Group id="lineGroup"
                visible="{checkBox.selected}"
                height="100%">
            <VRule x="0" height="100%" />
            <VRule x="100" height="100%" />
            <VRule x="200" height="100%" />
            <VRule x="270" height="100%" />
        </Group>
    </Canvas>

</Application>

This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex Gumbo SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex Gumbo SDK.