Setting the text roll over color on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 14, 2008 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the text roll over color for a Flex ComboBox control by setting the textRollOverColor style.

 

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Specifying a custom icon function on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 13, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can specify a custom icon function on a Flex ComboBox control by setting the iconFunction property on the ComboBox control’s dropdown menu.

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Setting the selected item background color on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the item background roll over color on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could change the item background roll over color for a ComboBox control by setting the rollOverColor style.

The following example shows how you can change the selected item background color for a Flex [...]

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Setting the item background roll over color on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the item background roll over color for a Flex ComboBox control by setting the rollOverColor style.

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Preventing users from changing the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 10, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can prevent users from changing the value in a Flex ComboBox control by setting the dropdown menu’s selectable property.

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Toggling the drop shadow on the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on the Flex ComboBox control by setting the dropShadowEnabled style on the ComboBox control’s dropdown menu.

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Toggling item roll over highlighting on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 7, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle the item roll over hightlighting on a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by setting the useRollOver style using ActionScript or CSS.

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Using embedded fonts with the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 6, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ComboBox control by setting the fontFamily style and dropdownStyleName style.

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Toggling live scrolling on a ComboBox control’s dropdown menu in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can enable or disable live scrolling on a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by setting the liveScrolling property on the ComboBox control’s dropdown property.

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Setting the icon color on a ComboBox control’s dropdown menu in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 5, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the icon color on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the icon (arrow) color on a Flex ComboBox control by setting the iconColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the icon color of the arrow icons in the Flex ComboBox control’s [...]

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Creating a variable row height item renderer on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 4, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a variable row height item renderer on a Flex ComboBox control by setting the variableRowHeight property on the ComboBox control’s dropdown property.

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Setting the icon color on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the icon (arrow) color on a Flex ComboBox control by setting the iconColor style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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