Dynamically adding paragraphs to a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By On October 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can dynamically add paragraphs to a TextFlow in a Spark RichText control by creating a new SpanElement (<span/>) and ParagraphElement (<p/>) object and then adding the spans and paragraphs to the textFlow object using the addChild() method.

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Adding an FTETextField object to the display list in Flex 4

By On October 7, 2009 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can add an FTETextField object (formerly TLFTextField) by using a Halo/MX container and the rawChildren.addChild() method or by using a SpriteVisualElement object and the addChild() method.

The mx.core.TLFTextField class was renamed to mx.core.FTETextField in 4.0.0.10872.

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Creating a ControlBar container in Flex using ActionScript

By On February 25, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple Panel container with a nested ControlBar container in Flex using ActionScript.

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Creating view states in a Flex application

By On October 5, 2007 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can create different view states in a Flex application by using the <mx:states /> and <mx:State /> tags.

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Dynamically adding new children to a Flex Accordion container

By On September 18, 2007 · 19 Comments

The following example shows how you can add and remove children from a Flex Accordion container by using the addChild() and removeChild() methods.

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Toggling a Flex container’s visibility using states

By On August 24, 2007 · 11 Comments

In a previous post, “Toggling a Flex container’s visibility”, we looked at toggling a VBox container’s visibility by setting both the visible property and includeInLayout property. While the approach felt a little crude, we can build the same thing using the much more powerful view states. What are view states and how do we [...]

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