Determining how much of an item is visible in a scrolling VGroup container in Flex 4

By On October 31, 2009 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Determining the first and last visible item in a scrolling VGroup container in Flex 4″, we saw how you could determine the first and last item in a Spark VGroup container’s view by using the firstIndexInView and lastIndexInView properties on the VGroup container’s layout property.

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Determining the first and last visible item in a scrolling VGroup container in Flex 4

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine the first and last item in a Spark VGroup container’s view by using the firstIndexInView and lastIndexInView properties on the VGroup container’s layout property.

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Creating an MXML based icon for the Halo LinkButton control in Flex 4

By On October 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can create an MXML-based icon for the Halo/MX LinkButton control in Flex 4 by creating a custom component using the <fx:Component/> tag and setting the className property.

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Merging XMLListCollections in Flex

By On October 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can combine two XMLListCollection objects in Flex by using the addAll() method.

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Setting word wrapping on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By On October 27, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable word wrapping on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by overriding the default layout with a VerticalLayout object and set its horizontalAlign property to “justify” (instead of the default “contentJustify”).

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Setting the background fill alpha on a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4

By On October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundAlpha style and setting the alternatingItemColors style to an empty array.

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Setting a gradient background fill on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On October 24, 2009 · 5 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a gradient background fill on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could create a linear gradient background on a Halo/MX TextArea control in Flex 4 by creating a custom border skin with a LinearGradient fill and setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting a gradient background fill on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By On October 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the background fill color on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the background fill color on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can create a linear [...]

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Setting the video alpha on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By On October 24, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the video alpha on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by setting the alpha property on the VideoPlayer instance’s videoDisplay property.

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Displaying a popup Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4

By On October 23, 2009 · 25 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a popup Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4 by using the static PopUpManager.addPopUp(), PopUpManager.createPopUp(), and PopUpManager.centerPopUp() methods.

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Clearing the video on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By On October 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Clearing the video on a Spark VideoElement control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could clear a Spark VideoElement control’s video stream in a Flex 4 application by calling the clear() method on the VideoElement instance’s videoObject property.

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Clearing the video on a Spark VideoElement control in Flex 4

By On October 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Clearing the video on a Flex VideoDisplay control”, we saw how you could clear a VideoDisplay control’s content using the videoPlayer property in the mx_internal namespace.

The following example shows how you can clear a Spark VideoElement control’s video stream in a Flex 4 application by calling the clear() method [...]

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