Adding a control bar to a Spark Panel in Flex 4

By On August 31, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can add a control bar to a Spark Panel in Flex 4 by setting the controlBarContent property.

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Styling tooltips in Flex 4

By On August 30, 2009 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of a ToolTip in Flex 4 by overriding the ToolTip selector in an <fx:Style/> block, or using the StyleManager in ActionScript.

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Creating a Spark Button control with a vertical label in Flex 4

By On August 29, 2009 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a vertical label on a Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the breakOpportunity and textRotation styles.

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Removing the border from the Halo Tree control in Flex 4

By On August 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove or modify the border on the Halo Tree control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Creating a LinkElement in a Spark RichEditableText control in Flex 4

By On August 27, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a clickable link which pops up an Alert control in a Spark RichEditableText object’s text flow by using the <a /> tag and defining a click handler to the LinkElement.

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Setting tab stops on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By On August 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can use tab stops on a Spark RichText primitive in Flex 4 by setting the tabStops style.

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Toggling rich text copy and pasting on a Halo TextArea control in Flex

By On August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle rich text copy/pasting on a Halo TextArea control in Flex by setting the internal TextField object’s Boolean useRichTextClipboard property.

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Creating a simple animated text ticker using the Spark TextInput control in Flex 4

By On August 25, 2009 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple, animated text ticker using a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4 by using the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes to tween the horizontalScrollPosition property.

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Setting the end caps on a Spark Line stroke in Flex 4

By On August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the end caps on a Spark SolidColorStroke object by setting the caps property to one of the static constant values in the flash.display.CapsStyle class.

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Setting the corner radius on an MX MenuBar control in Flex 4

By On August 23, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on a Halo MenuBar control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the radiusX and radiusY properties.

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Setting the base color on a Halo MenuBar control in Flex 4

By On August 22, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set the base background color on a Halo MenuBar control in Flex 4 by setting the baseColor style.

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Using a CFF embedded font with a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4

By On August 21, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a CFF embedded font with a Halo DataGrid container by setting the itemRenderer property or defaultDataGridItemRenderer style to the mx.controls.dataGridClasses.TLFDataGridItemRenderer class.

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