In a previous example, “Styling specific states in a Spark ToggleButton control in Flex 4″, we saw how to style specific states in a Flex 4 Spark ToggleButton control using CSS by specifying the state name after the control name in the <Script> block.

The following example shows how you can set styles on specific states on a Flex 4 Spark ToggleButton control using ActionScript.

Full code after the jump.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/02/14/styling-specific-states-in-an-fxtogglebutton-control-in-flex-gumbo-redux/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_ToggleButton_statesStyle_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
        initialize="init();">
 
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.styles.*;
 
            private function init():void {
                var theStyle:CSSStyleDeclaration;
                var condition:CSSCondition = new CSSCondition(CSSConditionKind.PSEUDO, "upAndSelected");
                var selector:CSSSelector = new CSSSelector("spark.components.ToggleButton", [condition]);
 
                // s|ToggleButton:upAndSelected
                theStyle = new CSSStyleDeclaration(selector);
                theStyle.setStyle("chromeColor", "haloOrange");
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
 
    <s:ToggleButton id="btn"
            label="Spark ToggleButton"
            horizontalCenter="0"
            verticalCenter="0" />
 
</s:Application>

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This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 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 4 SDK.

 
About The Author

Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

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