Adding a hover glow filter to an MX Image control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can apply a hover glow filter to an MX Image control in Flex 4 by using the rollOver and rollOut events to set the filters property on the Image control to an array with a GlowFilter instance.

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Fading an item renderer background fill on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can fade an item renderer background fill on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer, setting the Boolean autoDrawBackground property to false, drawing your own background fill, and then setting a fade transition from the normal and hovered states.

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Setting the border color on the MX Accordion container headers in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 23, 2010 · 9 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the border style on the MX Accordion container in Flex”, we saw how you could set the border style on an MX Accordion container in Flex 3 by setting the borderStyle style.

The following example shows how you can set the border color on an MX Accordion container headers [...]

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Setting the tab width on an MX TabNavigator container in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On June 22, 2010 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the tab width on a TabBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the tab width on a Flex MX TabBar control by setting the aptly named tabWidth style.

The following example shows how you can can set the tab width on an MX TabNavigator container in [...]

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Toggling the drop shadow on the Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on the Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean dropShadowVisible style.

 

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Removing the header indicator and selection indicator from the MX DataGrid control header in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On June 19, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Disabling item highlight indicator in the MX List control in Flex 3″, we saw how you could disable the highlight indicator in the MX List control in Flex 3 by subclassing the List control and overriding the protected drawHighlightIndicator() method.

The following example shows how you can remove the header [...]

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Disabling item highlight indicator in the MX List control in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On June 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Disabling item roll over highlighting in the Flex DataGrid control”, we saw how you could disable the item roll over highlight in the MX DataGrid control in Flex by setting the Boolean useRollOver style.

The following example shows how you can disable the highlight indicator in the MX List control [...]

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Setting the border style on the MX Accordion container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the border style on an MX Accordion container in Flex 3 by setting the borderStyle style.

 

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Styling the scrub bar data tip on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 17, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the data tip on the Spark VideoPlayer control’s scrub bar when scrubbing the playhead by creating a custom VideoPlayer skin and specifying a custom ScrubBar skin.

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