Cloning a TextFlow object in Flex 4

By On July 31, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can clone a TextFlow object in Flex 4 by using the deepCopy() method.

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Vertically aligning labels in a Spark Button control in Flex 4

By On July 30, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can vertically align a Spark Button control’s label in Flex 4 by setting the verticalAlign style on the Button control’s internal labelDisplay object.

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Enabling tabbing on Spark Scroller children in Flex 4

By On July 29, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable tabbing into Spark Scroller children in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean hasFocusableChildren property.

 

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Displaying an icon on a toggle button in Flex 4

By On July 28, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple toggle button with an icon in Flex 4 by using the Spark ButtonBarButton control and specifying the icon in the data property, and then using a custom skin class.

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Displaying icons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4

By On July 28, 2009 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can display icons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin class and setting the skinClass style.

 

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Parsing dates with timezones in Flex

By On July 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Parsing ISO dates with Flex and ActionScript”, we saw how to parse ISO formatted dates (2008-01-25T06:14:23Z) and convert them into an ActionScript 3.0 Date object.

The following example shows how you can convert a Java formatted date (Wed Jul 22 14:29:30 PST 2009) and convert the timezone into an ActionScript [...]

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Displaying a border on specific sides of a HorizontalList control in Flex

By On July 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle which sides of a Flex HorizontalList control display the border outline by setting the borderSides style.

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Exporting a TextFlow object in Flex 4

By On July 25, 2009 · 28 Comments

The following example shows how you can export a TextFlow object in Flex 4 by using the TextConverter class (flashx.textLayout.conversion.TextConverter), and specifying HTML format, plain text format, or Text Layout Format.

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Creating a simple text editor using the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On July 24, 2009 · 49 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple rich text editor control in Flex 4 using the Spark TextArea control and using the getFormatOfRange() and setFormatOfRange() methods.

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Deleting nodes from an XML object in Flex

By On July 23, 2009 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can delete nodes from an XML object using the delete operator.

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Setting the icon color on the Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4

By On July 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the icon color on the DataGrid control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the icon color (the sort arrow color in the DataGrid header and arrows icons in the horizontal/vertical scrollbar) on a Flex DataGrid control by setting the iconColor style.

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Setting the icon color on the DataGrid control in Flex

By On July 21, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the icon color (the sort arrow color in the DataGrid header and arrows icons in the horizontal/vertical scrollbar) on a Flex DataGrid control by setting the iconColor style.

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