Setting the joint style on a Spark Border container in Flex 4

by Peter deHaan on November 3, 2009

in Border (Spark), JointStyle, beta2

The following example shows how you can set the joint style on a Spark Border container in Flex 4 by setting the borderStroke property to a custom stroke object and set the joints property to a static constant from the flash.display.JointStyle class.

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 beta, check out the Adobe Flash Builder 4 page on the Adobe Labs site. To download the latest build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4. For instructions on using the beta Flex 4 SDK in Flex Builder 3, see "Using the beta Flex 4 SDK in Flex Builder 3".

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/11/03/setting-the-joint-style-on-a-spark-border-container-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_Border_borderStroke_joints_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">
    <s:controlBarContent>
        <s:Label text="joints:" />
        <s:DropDownList id="dropDownList" requireSelection="true" selectedIndex="2">
            <s:dataProvider>
                <s:ArrayList source="[bevel,miter,round]" />
            </s:dataProvider>
        </s:DropDownList>
    </s:controlBarContent>
    <s:controlBarLayout>
        <s:HorizontalLayout verticalAlign="middle"
                paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" paddingTop="10" paddingBottom="10" />
    </s:controlBarLayout>
 
    <s:Border left="50" right="50" top="50" bottom="50"
              horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <s:borderStroke>
            <s:SolidColorStroke weight="50" joints="{dropDownList.selectedItem}" />
        </s:borderStroke>
    </s:Border>
 
</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.

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