Always displaying the selected text in a TextInput in Flex

By On April 30, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can get the Flex TextInput control to display the currently selected text regardless of whether it has focus by using the mx_internal namespace, the getTextField() method and the Boolean alwaysShowSelection property.

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Setting the horizontal scroll position in the TextInput control in Flex

By On January 27, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can progammatically scroll the Flex TextInput control by setting the horizontalScrollPosition property.

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Displaying a border on specific sides of a TextInput control in Flex

By On July 8, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle which sides of a Flex TextInput control display the borderSides and borderStyle styles.

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Detecting a double click on a TextInput control in Flex

By On June 24, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when a user double clicks a Flex TextInput control using the doubleClick event.

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Rounding specific corners on a focus rectangle in the TextInput control in Flex

By On June 12, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can apply a corner radius to specific corners of a Flex TextInput control’s focus rectangle by setting the focusRoundedCorners style.

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Restricting which characters a user can type in a TextInput control in Flex

By On May 15, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can restrict which characters a user can enter into a Flex TextInput control by setting the restrict property.

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Changing the focus rectangle color on a TextInput control in Flex

By On April 12, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the focus rectangle color for a Flex TextInput control by setting the themeColor style.

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Preventing line feeds in a TextArea control in Flex

By On March 7, 2008 · 21 Comments

The following example shows how you can prevent a user from pressing Enter in a Flex TextArea control by listening for the textInput event and checking the TextEvent object’s text property for a newline character (“\n”).

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Creating a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with password masked text

By On January 28, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows you how you can use a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with its displayAsPassword property set to true. By mousing over the credit card number field in the form below, you can see your credit card number in a readable tool tip.

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Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex (redux)

By On January 27, 2008 · 5 Comments

We’ve already seen how to get a TextInput control to display its text as a masked password field before in an earlier example, “Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex” by setting the displayAsPassword property to true.
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Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex

By On January 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can toggle between plain text and text masked as a password by setting the displayAsPassword property on a TextInput control in Flex.

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Changing the background color of a disabled Flex TextInput control

By On October 10, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the backgroundDisabledColor style to customize the overlay color on a Flex TextInput control when the control’s enabled property is set to false.

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