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 TabNavigator container in Flex

By On October 7, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the label placement on a TabBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could loop over the tabs in a Flex TabBar control and set each tab’s labelPlacement property using the getChildAt() method.

The following example shows how you can loop over the tabs in a Flex TabNavigator container [...]

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Changing the padding between the tabs and content in a Flex TabNavigator control

By On December 14, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can adjust the amount of padding that appears between the tabs and the content of a TabNavigator control in Flex by setting the paddingTop style.

Full code after the jump.

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Styling the Flex TabNavigator control

By On September 26, 2007 · 29 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the TabNavigator control in Flex using the tabStyleName, firstTabStyleName, lastTabStyleName, and selectedTabTextStyleName styles.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Using the TabNavigator control’s tabOffset style in Flex 3

By On September 25, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can control the horizontal offset of the tabs in a TabNavigator control by setting the tabOffset style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Changing tab alignment within a Flex TabNavigator container

By On September 9, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the horizontal alignment of tabs within a TabNavigator container so that the tabs are left, center, or right aligned within the container.

Full code after the jump.

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Adding icons to a Flex TabNavigator control

By On August 16, 2007 · 19 Comments

I was trying to figure out how to add icons to a TabNavigator control today and ended up making this. The trick is that you actually add the icon on the TabNavigator control’s child containers and not on the TabNavigator itself. The example also has three tabs which each look at a different filtered view [...]

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Modules and singleton manager classes

By On August 6, 2007 · 7 Comments

This is a bit more of a “gotcha” than a tip, but it is something I’ve run into twice in the past week or so. When working with application domains and singletons (such as the DragManager or PopUpManager). I’ve been playing with modules the past couple days and ran into an issue when trying to [...]

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