The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ColorPicker control by setting the fontFamily style.
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In a previous example, “Changing the preview color width for the ColorPicker control in Flex 3″, we saw how you can change the preview color width for a ColorPicker control.
The following example shows how you can change the text field width in the ColorPicker control’s drop down swatch panel by setting the swatchPanelStyleName and textFieldWidth styles in Flex 3.
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The following example shows how you can change the preview color width in the ColorPicker control’s drop down swatch panel by setting the swatchPanelStyleName and previewWidth styles in Flex 3.
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The following example shows how you can toggle the nested text field in a ColorPicker control’s swatch panel in Flex by setting the showTextField property.
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the ColorPicker control’s nested text field in Flex 3 by setting the textFieldStyleName style.
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The following example shows how you can set the swatch grid background color on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchGridBackgroundColor style. You can also see how you can set the horizontalGap, and verticalGap styles using CSS.
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The following example shows how you can set the swatch highlight size on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchHighlightSize style. You can also see how you can set the swatchBorderColor, swatchBorderSize, and swatchHighlightColor styles using CSS.
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The following example shows how you can set the swatch border size on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchBorderSize style.
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The following example shows you how you can change the ColorPicker control’s background color in Flex 3 by setting the backgroundColor style using CSS and ActionScript.
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I saw this come up on a list recently, so thought I’d share the answer with my loyal readership. Styling the ColorPicker control changed somewhat between Flex 2.0.1 and Flex 3. Now, instead of applying certain styles directly to the ColorPicker itself, you create a new custom style and assign the swatchPanelStyleName style on the ColorPicker. But enough of my rambling, code is worth 1000 words.
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The following example shows how you can control the easing duration and easing functions that the ColorPicker control uses to display its drop-down swatch palette. Of course, this probably isn’t the best example of “useful animation” and will probably just annoy users (the long 2 second easing animation), but it is nice to know that you can change these if you need to.
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Here’s a quick post on converting some colors from strings to integers, and splitting colors into separate red/green/blue values, and formatting colors using Flex.
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In a previous post, “Formatting colors as strings with ActionScript“, A reader asked about the ColorPicker component. So here’s a quick little example of creating a ColorPicker control, as well as setting the labelField and colorField properties to display color names in the ColorPicker control.
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