Setting a custom icon on the MX Button control in Flex

By On November 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use the MX TitleWindow container’s close button for an MX Button control icon and skin by setting the skinClass 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 the fill colors on a Halo Button control in Flex 4

By On August 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the fill colors on a Halo Button control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the gradient colors in the fill layer:

<!– layer 2: fill –> <s:rect left="1" right="1" top="1" bottom="1" radiusX="2" radiusY="2"> <s:fill> <s:lineargradient rotation="90"> <s:gradiententry color="red" color.overStates="haloGreen" [...]

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Setting a background image on a Halo Button control in Flex 4

By On July 10, 2009 · 2 Comments

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

Full code after the jump.

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Changing the default skins on a Button control in Flex

By On August 20, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can modify the default skins for the Flex Button control by setting the skin, upSkin, overSkin, downSkin, and disabledSkin styles.

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Detecting when the label placement changes on a Button control in Flex

By On June 26, 2008 · 1 Comment

In an earlier example, “Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property”, we saw how you can set a Flex Button control’s label placement using the labelPlacement property.

The following example shows how you can detect when the labelPlacement property has changed using the labelPlacementChanged event.

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Detecting when the label changes on a Button control in Flex

By On June 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex Button control’s label changes using the labelChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Setting a creation complete effect on a Button control in Flex

By On June 17, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a creation complete effect on a Flex Button control by setting the creationCompleteEffect style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Aligning a label in a Button control in Flex

By On May 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can align the text label within a Flex Button control by setting the textAlign style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Setting a Button control’s icon to an asset from a SWF file in Flex

By On February 29, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a Flex Button control’s icon style to an asset from a SWF file using MXML or ActionScript.

Full code after the jump.

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Changing the padding on a Button control in Flex

By On January 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can modify the padding between the Button control’s label and icon and the button’s edges by setting the paddingLeft, paddingRight, paddingTop, paddingBottom, and horizontalGap styles.

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Changing the fill colors of a Button control in Flex

By On January 2, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can change the background fill colors and fill alphas of a Button control in Flex by setting the fillColors, and fillAlphas styles.

Full code after the jump.

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