Setting the accent color on the MX Alert control default button in Flex 4

By On November 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the accent color on the MX Alert control’s default button in Flex 4 by setting the new accentColor style.

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Styling the emphasized button on an MX Alert control in Flex 4

By On September 25, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the emphasized button on a Halo/MX Alert control in Flex 4 by setting the buttonStyleName and emphasizedSkin styles.

 

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Setting a title background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By On July 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Setting a background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could can a repeating background image fill on a Halo Alert control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

The following example shows how you can set the [...]

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Removing the default dropshadow from the Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By On July 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can remove the default dropshadow from the Halo Alert control (with default Spark skins) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting a background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By On July 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a repeating background image fill on a Halo Alert control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting the corner radius on the Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By On June 20, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the radiusX and radiusY properties on the Rect objects (in Flex 3 and earlier this was done by setting the cornerRadius style directly).

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Creating a self-closing Alert control in Flex

By On April 8, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a self-closing Flex Alert control by creating a timer and using the static PopUpManager.removePopUp() method to remove the Alert after a certain time period.

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Styling Alert controls in Flex using the StyleManager class and setStyle() method (Flex 4 Edition)

By On April 6, 2009 · 4 Comments

In a previous example, “Styling Alert controls in Flex using the StyleManager class and setStyle() methods”, we saw how to style a Flex Alert control using the static StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration() method, and the setStyle() method.

The following example shows how you can do the same thing using the beta Flex 4 SDK by passing a [...]

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Disabling an Alert control in Flex

By On October 17, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can disable an Alert control for a specified number of milliseconds before the user can dismiss the dialog by setting the enabled property.

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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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Creating an undraggable Alert control in Flex (redux)

By On September 10, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, Creating an undraggable Alert control in Flex, we saw how you could create a Flex Alert control that isn’t draggable by listening for the mouseDown event and calling the stopImmediatePropagation() method in the event handler.

The following example shows how you can create an undraggable Flex Alert control by setting [...]

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Playing a sound effect when an Alert control is displayed in Flex

By On September 10, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can play an embedded MP3 when a Flex Alert control is displayed by setting the creationCompleteEffect style/effect.

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