Smoothing the background fill on an MX Panel container in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On March 15, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can apply smoothing to a background image fill on an MX Panel container in Flex 3 by extending the BitmapAsset class, setting the Boolean smoothing property, and setting the backgroundImage and backgroundSize styles.

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Setting a control bar background image fill on a Halo Panel control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 8, 2009 · 2 Comments

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

Full code after the jump.

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Toggling the drop shadow on a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 19, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on a Flex Panel container by setting the dropShadowEnabled style.

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Adding a title icon to a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 18, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can add an icon to a Flex Panel container’s title bar by setting the titleIcon property.

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Adding links to a Panel container’s status text in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 17, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can assign an HTML formatted string to a Panel container’s status text field using the getStatusTextField() method in the mx_internal namespace.

 

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Setting the background alpha on a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 12, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the border alpha on a Panel container in Flex”, we saw how you could change a panel’s border alpha by setting the borderAlpha style.

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Flex Panel container by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

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Setting the border alpha on a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 12, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the border alpha on a Flex Panel container by setting the borderAlpha style.

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Using embedded fonts with the Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 28, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Panel container so that a Panel container can be rotated or faded without the text “disappearing”. The trick here is to set the panel’s titleStyleName style to a custom style which sets the font family to the embedded font.

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Indenting a Flex Panel control’s title

By Peter deHaan On January 14, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can indent the title of a Panel control in Flex by setting the titleStyleName style and textIndent style.

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Setting the child layout direction of a Flex Panel container

By Peter deHaan On January 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a Panel container’s layout to horizontal or vertical in Flex by setting the layout property.

You can also set the Panel container’s layout to “absolute”. For an example, see “Setting the border thickness in a Flex Panel container”.

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Setting the border thickness in a Flex Panel container

By Peter deHaan On January 12, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the border thickness of each edge (left, right, top, and bottom) separately on a Panel container in Flex by setting the borderThicknessLeft, borderThicknessRight, borderThicknessTop, and borderThicknessBottom styles.

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Setting the header height on a Flex Panel container

By Peter deHaan On January 12, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows you how you can change the header height on a Panel container in Flex by setting the headerHeight style.

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