2009 February | Flex Examples

Setting a horizontal gap between buttons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the horizontal gap between buttons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 by setting the gap property on the HorizontalLayout object.

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Styling specific states in a Spark ToggleButton control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 11, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can 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. In this example the base color for all the states is set to red and then overridden in the “upAndSelected”, “overAndSelected”, “downAndSelected”, and [...]

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Determining when the selected item changes on the FxButtonBar control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On February 10, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can determine when the selected item changes on the Flex Gumbo FxButtonBar control by listening for the selectionChanging or selectionChanged events.

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Requiring a user has an item selected on the FxButtonBar in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On February 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can make sure that the Flex Gumbo FxButtonBar control has an item selected by setting the Boolean requiresSelection property.

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Using the FxButtonBar control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On February 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use the Flex Gumbo FxButtonBar by setting the dataProvider property to an ArrayCollection object.

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Setting the repeat delay on an auto repeating Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the repeat delay on an Flex 4 Spark Button control by setting the repeatDelay style and the autoRepeat property.

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Determining when the selected state of a Spark ToggleButton control changes in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can determine when the Flex 4 Spark ToggleButton control is selected or deselected by listening for the change event and checking the Boolean selected property.

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Setting the background color on a Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 5, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the base color (or background color) on a Flex 4 Spark Button control by setting the baseColor style using MXML, CSS, or ActionScript.

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Setting word wrapping on the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 4, 2009 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can set word wrapping on a Flex 4 Spark TextArea control by setting the lineBreak style to one of the static constants in the LineBreak class (flashx.textLayout.formats.LineBreak):

toFit (LineBreak.TO_FIT): For lines that wrap to fit to the container width. explicit (LineBreak.EXPLICIT): For lines that break only at explicit return/line [...]

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Using tab stops with the TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set tab stops on the Flex TextArea control by setting the tabStops property on a TextFormat object and setting the defaultTextFormat property or setTextFormat() method, or by setting the TextArea control’s htmlText property to an HTML string with a <TextFormat> tag.

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