Alternating tile background colors for items in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 10, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set alternating background colors for tiles in a Flex TileList control by setting the alternatingItemColors style using MXML, CSS or ActionScript.

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Setting the row height of a tile in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the column width of a tile in a TileList control in Flex”, we saw how you could change the width of a tile in a Flex TileList control by setting the columnWidth property.

The following example shows how you can set the row height of a tile in a [...]

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Setting the column width of a tile in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the column width of a tile in a Flex TileList control by setting the columnWidth property in MXML and ActionScript.

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Setting a specific number of rows in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 8, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a specific number of columns in a TileList control in Flex”, we saw how to resize a TileList control based on a specific number of columns by setting the columnCount property.

The following example shows how you can resize a Flex TileList control to a certain number of rows [...]

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Setting a specific number of columns in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 7, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can resize a Flex TileList control to a certain number of columns by setting the columnCount property in MXML or ActionScript.

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Dynamically loading XML files using the HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On March 29, 2008 · 23 Comments

In previous examples, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control” and “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, we saw how you could create a simple image gallery using the TileList and HorizontalList controls.

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Setting the layout direction of a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 23, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the item layout direction of the Flex TileList control by setting the direction property to “horizontal” or “vertical”.

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Changing live dragging on a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 16, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable or disable live dragging on a Flex TileList control by setting the liveScrolling property.

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Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control

By Peter deHaan On March 8, 2008 · 92 Comments

Similar to a previous example, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, the following example shows how you can create a simple photo gallery in Flex using the TileList control, Image control, and the PopUpManager class.

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Using the Flex TileList class’s new dataChangeEffect style in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On September 28, 2007 · 39 Comments

The following example shows how you can add nice list effects when items are reordered in a TileList control.

For more information on the new List and Data effects, see “Flex 3:Feature Introductions: List and Data Effects”.

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Duplicating images using the Bitmap and BitmapData classes

By Peter deHaan On August 3, 2007 · 28 Comments

In a previous post (Finding a pixel’s color value using the Bitmap classes and getPixel()) we looked at copying an image so we could build a simple color-picker like app. In this post, we explore duplicating a loaded image and copying it into a TileList control. Each time you press the “Copy image” button, [...]

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