Flex Examples
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.
The following example shows how you can set the icon/symbol color on a Halo DataGrid control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the symbolColor style.
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/2009/07/22/setting-the-icon-color-on-the-halo-datagrid-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Halo_DataGrid_symbolColor_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"> <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0"> <mx:Form styleName="plain"> <mx:FormItem label="symbolColor:"> <mx:ColorPicker id="colorPicker" selectedColor="black" /> </mx:FormItem> </mx:Form> </mx:ApplicationControlBar> <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" dataProvider="{Font.enumerateFonts(true)}" symbolColor="{colorPicker.selectedColor}" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" /> </s:Application>
View source is enabled in the following example.
You can also set the symbolColor style in an external .CSS file or <Style/> block, as seen in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/07/22/setting-the-icon-color-on-the-halo-datagrid-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Halo_DataGrid_symbolColor_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"> <fx:Style> @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"; @namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"; mx|DataGrid { symbolColor: red; } </fx:Style> <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" dataProvider="{Font.enumerateFonts(true)}" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" /> </s:Application>
Or, you can set the symbolColor style using ActionScript, as seen in the following example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/07/22/setting-the-icon-color-on-the-halo-datagrid-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Halo_DataGrid_symbolColor_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"> <fx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.events.ColorPickerEvent; protected function colorPicker_change(evt:ColorPickerEvent):void { dataGrid.setStyle("symbolColor", evt.color); } ]]> </fx:Script> <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0"> <mx:Form styleName="plain"> <mx:FormItem label="symbolColor:"> <mx:ColorPicker id="colorPicker" selectedColor="black" change="colorPicker_change(event);"/> </mx:FormItem> </mx:Form> </mx:ApplicationControlBar> <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" dataProvider="{Font.enumerateFonts(true)}" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" /> </s:Application>
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.
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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