Creating blinking text on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By On August 13, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a blinking text effect on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 using a simple property animation with the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes to tween the alpha property.

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Creating a simple property animation in Flex 4

By On April 22, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple property animation in Flex 4 using the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes and the play() method.

 

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Animating colors using the FxAnimateColor effect in Flex Gumbo

By On November 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can create an animated transition between two colors using the Flex Gumbo FxAnimateColor class.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Incrementally 3D rotating objects using the Spark Rotate3D effect in Flex 4

By On October 25, 2008 · 16 Comments

In a previous example, “3D Rotating objects in Flex 4 using the Spark Rotate3D effect and Flash Player 10″, we saw how you could rotate objects in 3D space from 0 to 360 degrees along the X, Y, and Z axis using the Spark Rotate3D effect in the Flex 4 SDK.

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3D Rotating objects in Flex 4 using the Rotate3D effect and Flash Player 10

By On October 13, 2008 · 24 Comments

The following example shows how you can rotate objects in 3D space using the Flex Rotate3D effect using the latest version (build 4.0.0.8811) of the beta Flex 4 SDK.

Full code after the jump.

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Applying an effect when an HBox container is resized in Flex

By On October 1, 2008 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can apply a resize effect to a Flex HBox container by setting the resizeEffect style/effect.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Creating a custom creation complete effect on a Flex Alert control (redux)

By On September 15, 2008 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating a custom creation complete effect on a Flex Alert control”, we saw how you could specify an effect which gets played when an Alert control is displayed by setting the Alert control’s creationCompleteEffect style.

The following example shows how you can apply a parallel Fade/Move effect when the Alert [...]

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Setting a complete effect on an Image control in Flex

By On June 29, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can add a complete effect on a Flex Image control by setting the completeEffect effect using MXML, CSS, or ActionScript.

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Sequencing effects in Flex using the mx:Sequence tag (redux)

By On April 23, 2008 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Sequencing effects in Flex using the mx:Sequence tag”, we saw how you could sequence tween effects using the <mx:Sequence /> tag.

The following example shows how you can create the same sequenced effects using ActionScript instead of MXML.

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Setting effects with ActionScript in Flex

By On February 27, 2008 · 21 Comments

The following example shows how you can set effects on a Flex Image control using ActionScript by setting the showEffect and hideEffect effects using the setStyle() method.

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Changing the default easing function on a Wipe effect

By On October 11, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the move easing function on a wipe effect.

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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.

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