Dynamically adding paragraphs to a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

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

The following example shows how you can dynamically add paragraphs to a TextFlow in a Spark RichText control by creating a new SpanElement (<span/>) and ParagraphElement (<p/>) object and then adding the spans and paragraphs to the textFlow object using the addChild() method.

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Toggling child recycling on a Repeater in Flex

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

The following example shows how you can toggle child recycling in a Repeater object in Flex by setting the Boolean recycleChildren property.

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Adding an FTETextField object to the display list in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 7, 2009 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can add an FTETextField object (formerly TLFTextField) by using a Halo/MX container and the rawChildren.addChild() method or by using a SpriteVisualElement object and the addChild() method.

The mx.core.TLFTextField class was renamed to mx.core.FTETextField in 4.0.0.10872.

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Displaying HTML formatted text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 6, 2009 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can set HTML text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 by converting the HTML string to a TextFlow object using the static TextConverter.importToFlow() method and setting the textFlow property.

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Toggling horizontal and vertical scroll bars on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can show or hide horizontal and vertical scroll bars on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the horizontalScrollPolicy and/or verticalScrollPolicy styles.

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Setting the background color on a Spark Application control bar in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background fill color on a Spark Application container’s control bar in Flex 4 by setting the skinClass style and modifying the control bar fill:

<!– layer 1: control bar fill –> <s:rect left="1" right="1" top="1" bottom="2"> <s:fill> <s:lineargradient rotation="90"> <s:gradiententry color="0×333333" /> <s:gradiententry color="0×666666" /> </s:lineargradient> [...]

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Toggling the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 3, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean controlBarVisible property.

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Toggling variable row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle variable item/row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean variableRowHeight property.

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Toggling smoothing on a Spark Border container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 1, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle smoothing on a Spark Border container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean smooth property on the BitmapFill object.

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