Displaying a drop shadow behind a VBox container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 24, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a drop shadow behind a Flex VBox container by setting the borderStyle and dropShadowEnabled styles.

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Setting effects with ActionScript in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 27, 2008 · 21 Comments

The following example shows how you can set effects on a Flex Image control using ActionScript by setting the showEffect and hideEffect effects using the setStyle() method.

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Clipping a Flex container’s content using the clipContent property

By Peter deHaan On February 2, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can clip a container’s content in Flex by setting the clipContent property.
According to the Flex 3 documentation for the Container class’s clipContent property:

Whether to apply a clip mask if the positions and/or sizes of this container’s children extend outside the borders of this container. If [...]

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Changing a VBox container’s background size in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a background image and background size for a Flex VBox container by setting the backgroundImage, and backgroundSize styles.

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Changing a VBox container’s background alpha in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 5, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set both an background image and background color and change its alpha to for a Flex VBox container by setting the backgroundImage, backgroundColor, and backgroundAlpha styles.

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Changing a VBox container’s background image attachment in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 5, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a background image and change its attachment to scrolling or fixed for a Flex VBox container by setting the backgroundImage and backgroundAttachment styles.

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Setting the vertical gap between items in a Flex VBox container

By Peter deHaan On January 3, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can control the amount of vertical spacing between items in a VBox container by setting the verticalGap style.

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Setting a Flex container’s vertical scroll policy

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use the verticalScrollPolicy property on a Flex VBox container to control the appearance of the vertical scroll bar when the container’s contents exceed the dimensions of the container.

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Toggling a Flex container’s visibility using states

By Peter deHaan On August 24, 2007 · 11 Comments

In a previous post, “Toggling a Flex container’s visibility”, we looked at toggling a VBox container’s visibility by setting both the visible property and includeInLayout property. While the approach felt a little crude, we can build the same thing using the much more powerful view states. What are view states and how do we [...]

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Toggling a Flex container’s visibility

By Peter deHaan On August 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows a pretty crude method for toggling a container’s visibility and removing it from the Flex application layout. Mind you, this probably isn’t the preferred/recommended method of doing this (I imagine using states would be a lot nicer/cleaner) but hey, I’ll have to save that method up for another entry.

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