Setting the fill colors on a CheckBox control in Flex

By On January 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the check box fill colors on a Flex CheckBox control by setting the fillColors style.

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Setting the label color on a CheckBox control in Flex

By On January 25, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text and theme color on a Flex CheckBox control based on whether the control is selected or not.

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Setting the disabled text color on a CheckBox control in Flex

By On January 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text color on a disabled Flex CheckBox control by setting the disabledColor style.

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Displaying a hand cursor when the user rolls over the CheckBox control in Flex

By On August 15, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a hand cursor when the user rolls their mouse over the Flex CheckBox control by setting the useHandCursor and buttonMode properties.

According to the documentation for the useHandCursor property:

A Boolean value that indicates whether the pointing hand (hand cursor) appears when the mouse rolls over [...]

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Enabling sticky highlighting on a CheckBox control in Flex

By On August 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can enable sticky highlighting on a Flex CheckBox control by setting the stickyHighlighting property.

According to the documentation for the stickyHighlighting property:

If false, the CheckBox displays its down skin when the user presses it but changes to its over skin when the user drags the mouse off [...]

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Displaying CheckBox controls using the Repeater in Flex

By On May 29, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a series of CheckBox controls using the Flex Repeater with an Array data provider.

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Setting an error string on a CheckBox control in Flex

By On May 21, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set an error string on a Flex CheckBox control by setting the errorString property.

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Truncating the label on a Flex CheckBox control

By On February 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can truncate the label on a CheckBox control in Flex by setting the width property.

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Using a CheckBox control as a list item renderer in Flex

By On January 27, 2008 · 28 Comments

The following example will show you how you can use a CheckBox control as a custom item renderer in a List control in Flex.
I haven’t done a lot of testing yet, so if you have any tips/suggestions/improvements, please, share them in the comments.

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Adding your own custom CheckBox control icons in Flex

By On September 29, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can override the default icon in the Adobe Flex CheckBox control and replace it with a custom embedded graphic.

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Checking to see if a Flex CheckBox is selected before allowing a user to press a Button

By On September 13, 2007 · 12 Comments

The following example shows a few different ways of checking to see if the user selected a CheckBox control before allowing them to click a Button control. Got other tips? Leave them in the comments!

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Changing a CheckBox control’s icon

By On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can customize the check icon in a CheckBox control and use embedded images instead.

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