Setting the thumb offset on an MX HSlider control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 27, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set the thumb offset (distance between the slider thumb and track) on an MX HSlider control in Flex by setting the thumbOffset style.

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Creating a radio button item renderer on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use a Spark RadioButton control as an item renderer for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the itemRenderer property.

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Changing the background color of a disabled Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Changing the background color of a disabled TextArea control in Flex”, we saw how you can change the background color of a disabled MX TextArea control by setting the use the backgroundDisabledColor style.

The following example shows how you can change the background color of a disabled Spark TextArea control [...]

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Detecting the current state on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 15, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect the current state on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4 by using the currentState property.

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Detecting an item click event on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 14, 2010 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can dispatch an itemClick event on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer which listens for the click event and redispatches an itemClick event object.

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Setting the text roll over color on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the text roll over color on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could change the text roll over color for a Flex MX ComboBox control by setting the textRollOverColor style.

The following example shows how you can change the text roll over color in the Spark [...]

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Scrolling to a specific index in a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 12, 2010 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Scrolling to a specific index in a Flex List control”, we saw how you could scroll to a specific item index in Flex by using the scrollToIndex() method.

The following example shows how you can scroll to a specific item index in a Spark List control in Flex 4 by [...]

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Setting a conditional text color on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text color on a Spark List control item renderer label in Flex 4 by setting the color style in the item renderer’s dataChange event handler.

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Setting a custom context menu on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a custom context menu on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4 by setting the contextMenu property in the item renderer’s dataChange event.

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Setting the background alpha on the MX LinkBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on an MX LinkBar control in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundAlpha style.

 

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