Using a CFF embedded font with an MX Label control in Flex 4

By On June 14, 2009 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a CFF embedded font with a Halo Label control and Spark Label control by setting the textFieldClass style on the MX Label control to the mx.core.UIFTETextField class.

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Setting the font sharpness for a Label control in Flex

By On August 21, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the font sharpness on a Flex Label control by setting the fontSharpness and fontAntiAliasType styles.

 

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Setting the font thickness for a Label control in Flex

By On August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the font thickness on a Flex Label control by setting the fontThickness and fontAntiAliasType styles.

 

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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.

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Customizing a FormItem container’s label in Flex 3

By On March 21, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can access the Label subcomponent in a Flex FormItem container and do fancy stuff like have form labels with hyperlinks or selectable text by using the itemLabel property.

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Displaying tool tips in a Flex DataGrid control’s header

By On February 8, 2008 · 11 Comments

The following example shows you how you can truncate a DataGrid column’s text and display a tool tip by setting a custom header renderer.

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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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Displaying a Label control’s text as a password

By On January 27, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how you create a custom Label control in Flex that masks its text as a password by setting the Label control’s nested protected UITextField control’s displayAsPassword property.

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Truncating text in the Flex Label control using the truncateToFit property

By On January 26, 2008 · 22 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the truncateToFit property in the Label control in Flex to truncate strings if they exceed a specified width. The label control will terminate the string with “…” and allow you to roll over the text and read the entire (non-truncated) text in a tool tip, as seen [...]

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Listening for the link event in a Flex Label control

By On January 26, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the link event with the Label control in Flex to handle hyperlinks embedded within a string of text. By using the “event:” prefix in the href property of an anchor (<a />) tag, you can handle links within your Flex application, use the ExternalInterface API to call [...]

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Determining which button was pressed in a Flex ButtonBar component

By On January 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can determine which button was pressed in a ButtonBar control in Flex by listening for the itemClick event. You can then use the item, index, or label attribute in the ItemClickEvent object to find out which button was clicked.

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Truncating labels in a Flex ComboBox dropdown menu using an item renderer

By On September 22, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a Label control as an item renderer in a Flex ComboBox control so that items which exceed the combo box dropdown menu’s width are truncated with a nice “…”.

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