Displaying icons in an MX MenuBar control in Flex

By On January 29, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can display icons in an MX MenuBar control in Flex by setting the iconField property.

 

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Preventing the Spark VideoPlayer control skin parts from getting tab focus in Flex 4

By On January 28, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can prevent the various skin parts in a Spark VideoPlayer control from getting focus from the Tab key in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean tabChildren property.

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Creating three related Spark DropDownList controls in Flex 4

By On January 28, 2010 · 8 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating two related ComboBoxes”, we saw how you could create two or three related MX ComboBox controls in Flex 3 by binding to the previous ComboBox control’s selected item.

The following example shows how you can create three related Spark DropDownList controls in Flex 4 by using databinding and XML.

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Setting the width of the dropdown menu on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By On January 28, 2010 · 10 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the width of the dropdown menu on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the width of the dropdown menu on a Flex MX ComboBox control by setting the dropdownWidth property.

The following example shows how you can change the width of the Spark DropDownList [...]

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Creating a fancy Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By On January 27, 2010 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a fancy Spark List control item renderer by setting the itemRenderer property.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Setting the typographic case on a Spark Label control in Flex 4

By On January 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the typographic case (lowercase, uppercase, etc) on a Spark Label control in Flex 4 by setting the typographicCase style to one of the static constants in the flash.text.engine.TypographicCase class.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a custom label function on a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4

By On January 25, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Creating a custom label function on a Flex ButtonBar control”, we saw how you could use a custom label function to create button labels on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the labelFunction property.

The following example shows how you can set a custom label function to create [...]

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Displaying a semi-transparent FLV file in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex 4

By On January 21, 2010 · 12 Comments

In a previous example, “Displaying a semi-transparent FLV file in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex”, we saw how you could display an FLV file with alpha channel transparency in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex 3 by setting the backgroundAlpha style to 0.

The following example shows how you can display an FLV [...]

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Displaying a semi-transparent FLV file in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex

By On January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can display an FLV file with alpha channel transparency in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex 3 by setting the backgroundAlpha style to 0.

Full code after the jump.

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Resizing a Spark DropDownList control to match the currently selected item in Flex 4

By On January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can resize the Spark DropDownList control to match the currently selected list item in Flex 4 by setting the DropDownList control’s typicalItem property to the currently selected item.

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Embedding local system fonts in Flex 4

By On January 21, 2010 · 4 Comments

In a previous example, “Embedding fonts by name instead of location”, we saw how you could embed a font in Flex by specifying the font name instead of a location by using the local() function instead of the src() function when embedding a font.

The following example shows how you can load a system [...]

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Constraining the movement on a Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4

By On January 20, 2010 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Restricting the movement of a pop up Spark TitleWindow container to a single axis in Flex 4″, we saw how you could limit the Spark TitleBar container’s movement to a single axis by modifying the TitleWindowBoundsEvent object’s afterBounds object using the windowMoving event.

The following example shows how you can [...]

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