Inspecting the properties in a class using the describeType() method and E4X/XML

By On September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the describeType() method to inspect a class’s accessor methods.

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Displaying all the properties of a component instance in Flex

By On August 5, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how you can display all the getters/setters and their current values for a Flex TextArea control by using the describeType() method, some E4X filtering, and an XMLListCollection.

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Defining a custom label function on a Flex Tree control

By On October 29, 2007 · 13 Comments

The following example shows how you can specify a custom label function on a Tree control in Flex where the returned label is specific to the node name.

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Resizing a Flex List control using the rowCount property

By On October 28, 2007 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can resize a List control in Flex using the rowCount property. By setting the rowCount property, the List control is automatically resized so that only the specified number of rows are displayed.

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Adding icons to a Flex TabNavigator control

By On August 16, 2007 · 19 Comments

I was trying to figure out how to add icons to a TabNavigator control today and ended up making this. The trick is that you actually add the icon on the TabNavigator control’s child containers and not on the TabNavigator itself. The example also has three tabs which each look at a different filtered view [...]

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Filtering an XMLListCollection using the filterFunction property and regular expressions

By On August 4, 2007 · 20 Comments

Here is another handy little tip that you see all over the web, how do I filter a data grid (or other list-based control) based on a user’s input? Or more specificially, how to I limit the items that show in a list based on what a user types.

Since I already created a simple [...]

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