Modifying the drop shadow filter on a Spark DropDownList in Flex 4

By On April 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can modify the drop shadow effect on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin file and setting the skinClass style.

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Using the flash.* classes in MXML

By On September 26, 2007 · 5 Comments

I saw this trick the other day and thought it was pretty handy, so thought I’d save it here for future reference.

The following example shows how you can use the flash.filters classes in your MXML code by creating a new XML namespace.

Full code after the jump.

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