In a previous example, “Setting the required indicator on a Spark FomItem container in Flex Hero”, we saw how you could set the required indicator on a Spark FormItem container in Flex Hero by setting the required property.

The following example shows how you can set the required indicator icon source on a Spark FormItem container in Flex Hero by setting the requiredIndicatorSource style.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the beta Adobe Flex Hero SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex Hero SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+Hero.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/08/30/styling-the-required-indicator-on-a-spark-fomitem-container-in-flex-hero/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_FormItem_requiredIndicatorSource_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
    <s:layout>
        <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" />
    </s:layout>
 
    <fx:Style>
        @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";
        @namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx";
 
        s|FormItem {
            requiredIndicatorSource: "assets/asterisk_orange.png";
        }
    </fx:Style>
 
    <s:Form id="frm" defaultButton="{submitBtn}" backgroundColor="#EEEEEE">
        <s:FormHeading label="Spark Form Heading" backgroundColor="haloSilver" />
        <s:FormItem sequenceLabel="1." label="Username:" required="true">
            <s:helpContent>
                <s:Label text="user@domain.com" />
            </s:helpContent>
            <s:TextInput id="username" />
        </s:FormItem>
        <s:FormItem sequenceLabel="2." label="Password:" required="true">
            <s:helpContent>
                <s:Label text="weak" color="red" />
            </s:helpContent>
            <s:TextInput id="password1" displayAsPassword="true" />
        </s:FormItem>
        <s:FormItem sequenceLabel="3." label="Confirm password:">
            <s:helpContent>
                <s:HGroup>
                    <s:Label text="One" color="red" />
                    <s:Label text="Two" color="blue" />
                </s:HGroup>
            </s:helpContent>
            <s:TextInput id="password2" displayAsPassword="true" />
        </s:FormItem>
        <s:FormItem>
            <s:layout>
                <s:HorizontalLayout />
            </s:layout>
            <s:Button id="resetBtn" label="Reset" />
            <s:Button id="submitBtn" label="Submit" />
        </s:FormItem>
    </s:Form>
 
</s:Application>

This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex Hero SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex Hero SDK.

 
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Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

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