Setting the slide duration on a Spark HScrollBar control in Flex 4

By On February 28, 2010 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4 by setting the slideDuration style.

The following example shows how you can set the slide duration on a Spark HScrollBar control [...]

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Removing the sort arrow skin from an MX DataGrid control in Flex

By On February 26, 2010 · 5 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing the default sort arrow skin on a Flex DataGrid control”, we saw how you could change the sort arrow skin on a DataGrid control in Flex by setting the sortArrowSkin style.

The following example shows how you can remove the sort arrow skin from an MX DataGrid control in [...]

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Preventing the selected item highlighting in the Spark List control in Flex 4

By On February 25, 2010 · 10 Comments

In a previous example, “Preventing item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4″, we saw how you can prevent item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the changing event and calling the preventDefault() method on the IndexChangeEvent event object instance.

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Preventing item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4

By On February 25, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can prevent item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the changing event and calling the preventDefault() method on the IndexChangeEvent event object instance.

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Using embedded fonts with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4

By On February 24, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4 by setting the embedAsCFF and fontFamily styles.

 

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Setting the font weight on the MX Legend control in Flex 4

By On February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the font weight on a charting Legend control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the font weight of a Flex Charting Legend control by setting the fontWeight style on the LegendItem CSS selector.

The following example shows how you can set the font weight of an MX [...]

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Listening for a click on the MX MenuBar control in Flex

By On February 19, 2010 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect a click on the MX MenuBar control in Flex by using the menuBarItems array and adding an event listener for the click event to a specific MenuBarItem.

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Setting a variable row height on an MX MenuBar control in Flex

By On February 19, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a variable row height on an MX MenuBar control in Flex by listening for the menuShow event, setting the Boolean variableRowHeight property on the MenuEvent object’s menu property, and then calling the invalidateSize() method.

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Setting a text indent on the Spark List control in Flex 4

By On February 19, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text indent on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer using the RichText control and setting the textIndent style.

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Programmatically scrolling the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On February 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can programmatically scroll the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the vertical scroll position on the horizontal and vertical scroll bars in the scroller, horizontalScrollBar, and verticalScrollBar skin parts.

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Removing controls from the MX RichTextEditor control in Flex

By On February 17, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove controls from the MX RichTextEditor control by removing the controls from the display list and resizing the linkTextInput TextInput control.

 

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Creating a simple estimate form in Flex

By On February 15, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple online estimate form in Flex using some ComboBox controls and some simple ActionScript.

 

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