Changing the label placement on an MX TabBar control in Flex

By On November 9, 2010 · 4 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing the label placement on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex (redux)”, we saw how you could set the label/icon placement on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex by extending the MX ButtonBar class and setting the navItemFactory property in the mx_internal namespace to a custom class.

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Setting the tab width on an MX TabNavigator container in Flex 3

By On June 22, 2010 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the tab width on a TabBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the tab width on a Flex MX TabBar control by setting the aptly named tabWidth style.

The following example shows how you can can set the tab width on an MX TabNavigator container in [...]

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Setting the label placement on a TabBar control in Flex

By On October 6, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Styling individual tabs in a TabBar control”, we saw how you could style individual tabs in a Flex TabBar control by calling the getChildAt() method on the tab bar, and then calling setStyle() on the returned Tab reference.

The following example shows how you can loop over the tabs in [...]

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Setting the text alignment on a TabBar control in Flex

By On October 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Flex TabBar control by setting the tabStyleName, tabWidth, and textAlign styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting the tab width on a TabBar control in Flex

By On October 4, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the tab width on a Flex TabBar control by setting the aptly named tabWidth style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Using an embedded font with the TabBar control in Flex

By On June 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex TabBar control by setting the fontFamily and fontWeight styles.

 

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Vertically aligning tabs within a TabBar control in Flex

By On March 20, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Horizontally aligning tabs within a TabBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could horizontally align tabs in a TabBar control by setting the horizontalAlign style.

The following example shows how you can align tabs vertically within a Flex TabBar control by setting the verticalAlign style.

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Horizontally aligning tabs within a TabBar control in Flex

By On March 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can align tabs within a Flex TabBar control by setting the horizontalAlign style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Styling individual tabs in a TabBar control

By On November 19, 2007 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can style individual tabs in a Flex TabBar control by calling the getChildAt() method on the tab bar, and then calling setStyle() on the returned Tab reference.

A big thanks to Joan for helping me figure it out.

Full code after the jump.

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Controlling the distance between tabs in a TabBar control using the horizontalGap style

By On November 2, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can control the spacing between tabs in a Flex TabBar control by setting the horizontalGap style.

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Enabling and disabling specific tabs in a TabBar control

By On August 25, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable and disable individual tabs in a TabBar control by setting the enabled property in the ViewStack container’s child containers.

 

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Adding icons to a Flex TabBar control

By On August 21, 2007 · 8 Comments

This example is pretty similar to the previous entry “Adding icons to a Flex TabNavigator control” although it uses a TabBar control instead of a TabNavigator control. Well, that and this post doesn’t bother with an XML object and the DataGrid controls.

Full code after the jump.

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