Creating a semi-transparent scroll bar thumb on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

In previous examples, “Creating a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4″ and “Creating a custom scroll bar thumb skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how we could create a custom scroll bar track and thumb skin on an MX TextArea control [...]

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Creating a custom scroll bar thumb skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Creating a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you can create a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the trackSkin, verticalScrollBarStyleName, and horizontalScrollBarStyleName and styles.

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Creating a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the trackSkin, verticalScrollBarStyleName, and horizontalScrollBarStyleName and styles.

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Setting a gradient background fill on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the background fill color on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the background fill color on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can create a linear [...]

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Toggling rich text copy and pasting on a Halo TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle rich text copy/pasting on a Halo TextArea control in Flex by setting the internal TextField object’s Boolean useRichTextClipboard property.

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Setting the background fill color on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 17, 2009 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the background fill color on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor style (in Flex 3 and earlier this was done by setting the backgroundColor style).

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Changing the base theme color on the MX TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 10, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the base/theme color on the MX TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the chromeColor style. Setting the chromeColor style sets both the TextArea control’s border color and horizontal/vertical scroll bar’s track/thumb colors.

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Changing the background alpha on the Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 9, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on the Halo TextArea control’s Spark skin in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style. As you may have noticed, the Halo components have new “Spark” themed skins in Flex 4 (basically so you can use Halo+Spark components in the same Flex project and [...]

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Using tab stops with the TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set tab stops on the Flex TextArea control by setting the tabStops property on a TextFormat object and setting the defaultTextFormat property or setTextFormat() method, or by setting the TextArea control’s htmlText property to an HTML string with a <TextFormat> tag.

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Setting the focus blend mode on a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 11, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the focus blend mode of the focus rectangle on a Flex TextArea control by setting the focusBlendMode style.

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Auto-scrolling a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On November 27, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can auto-scroll a Flex TextArea control when new content is added by setting the verticalScrollPosition property to the value of the maxVerticalScrollPosition property.

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Setting the vertical scrollbar policy on a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the vertical scrollbar policy on a Flex TextArea control by setting the verticalScrollPolicy property to one of the constants in the mx.core.ScrollPolicy class.

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