The following example shows how you can toggle buttons in a Flex ToggleButtonBar control by setting the Boolean toggleOnClick property.
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Displaying icons in a Flex PopUpButton control (Redux)
In a previous example, “Displaying icons in a Flex PopUpButton control”, we saw how you could add icons to a PopUpButton control’s nested menu using an Array data provider.
The following example shows you how you can add icons to a pop up menu in a PopUpButton control in Flex by specifying the iconField property in the PopUpButton control’s nested Menu control using an XML data provider.
Full code after the jump.
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Setting margins on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows how you can set the margins on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the marginLeft, marginRight, marginTop, and marginBottom styles.
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Displaying a Spark TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows you how you can toggle between plain text and text masked as a password by setting the displayAsPassword property on a Flex Gumbo Spark TextInput control.
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Exporting the text in a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows how you can export the contents of a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by calling the export() method.
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Setting the miter limit on a Path stroke in Flex 4
The following example shows how you can set the miter limit on a Flex 4 Path stroke by setting the miterLimit property on a stroke object.
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Setting the block progression on a TextView control in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows how you can set the block progression on a Flex Gumbo TextView by setting the blockProgression style to one of the static constants in the BlockProgression class (flashx.textLayout.formats.BlockProgression).
Valid values for the blockProgression style are:
- “tb” (
BlockProgression.TB): Top to bottom. Lines are laid out horizontally starting at the top of the container and progressing down to the bottom. Used for horizontal text. (Default) - “rl” (
BlockProgression.RL): Right to left. Lines are laid out vertically starting at the right edge of the container and progressing leftward. Used for vertical text, for instance, vertical Chinese or Japanese text.
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Masking a Rect object with a TextGraphic in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows how you can use a TextGraphic object as a mask on a Rect object in Flex Gumbo by setting the maskType property to “alpha”.
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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.
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Setting the thickness of a stroke on a Line object in Flex Gumbo
The following example shows how you can set an Line object’s stroke weight by setting the weight property on the SolidColorStroke object.
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