Determining if the scroll bars are visible in a Spark Scroller container in Flex 4

By On April 30, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine if the vertical and/or horizontal scroll bars are visible on a Spark Scroller container in Flex 4 by checking the verticalScrollBar or horizontalScrollBar skin part’s Boolean visible property.

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Changing the header text color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4

By On April 30, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the header text color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4 by setting the color style on the titleDisplay skin part.

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Rewinding a video when changing the selected item in the MX Accordion container in Flex 4

By On April 29, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can rewind a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 when the selected MX Accordion container changes its selected item by listening for the hide event on the Spark NavigatorContent container and calling the seek() method on the VideoPlayer instance.

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Setting the chrome color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4

By On April 29, 2010 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the chrome color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4 by setting the chromeColor style.

 

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Displaying icons in a Spark List control in Flex 4

By On April 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can display icons in a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer and setting the itemRenderer property.

 

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Setting a bitmap fill on a Spark Button control in Flex 4 (redux)

By On April 29, 2010 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a bitmap fill on a Spark Button control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could apply a background bitmap fill on a Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin, using the BitmapFill class, and setting the skinClass style.

The following example shows how you [...]

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Setting a bitmap fill on a Spark Button control in Flex 4

By On April 29, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how can apply a background bitmap fill on a Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin, using the BitmapFill class and setting the skinClass style.

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Setting the corner radius on the Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4

By On April 27, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on the Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4 by setting the cornerRadius style.

 

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Setting the background color of a Spark Panel container in Flex 4

By On April 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the content background color of a Spark Panel container in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the content background color on a Spark Panel container’s children in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the background color on a [...]

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Creating a custom Spark HSlider thumb in Flex 4

By On April 23, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a Spark Button control as a thumb for the Spark HSlider control by setting the skinClass style on the thumb skin part in a custom Spark HSlider control skin.

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Removing the rollover and selection highlight on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By On April 22, 2010 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove the item highlight background on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the itemRenderer property to a custom item renderer with the Boolean autoDrawBackground property set to false.

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Creating a simple property animation in Flex 4

By On April 22, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple property animation in Flex 4 using the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes and the play() method.

 

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