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Adding a hover glow filter to an MX Image control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can apply a hover glow filter to an MX Image control in Flex 4 by using the rollOver and rollOut events to set the filters property on the Image control to an array with a GlowFilter instance.

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Rounding individual corners of an Image control in Flex using a mask

By Peter deHaan On October 20, 2009 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Rounding the corners of an Image control in Flex using a mask”, we saw how to round the corners on a Flex Image control by creating a rounded Sprite control using the drawRoundRect() method and setting the mask property.

The following example shows how you can round selected corners of [...]

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Fading two images using the CrossFade effect in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On September 21, 2009 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can cross fade two bitmap images using the CrossFade effect in Flex 4.

Full code after the jump.

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Opening a new browser window by double clicking an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can open a new browser window/tab by double clicking a Flex Image control by setting the doubleClickEnabled property to true and calling the navigateToURL() method

Full code after the jump.

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Rounding the corners of an Image control in Flex using a mask

By Peter deHaan On September 9, 2008 · 19 Comments

The following example shows how you can round the corners on a Flex Image control by creating a rounded Sprite control using the drawRoundRect() method and setting the mask property.

Full code after the jump.

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Using a clipboard menu in Flex with Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On August 27, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a clipboard menu and specify custom clipboard items on a context menu by setting the contextMenu and clipboardItems properties.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting a complete effect on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a complete effect on a Flex Image control by setting the completeEffect effect using MXML, CSS, or ActionScript.

Full code after the jump.

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Preventing an image from automatically loading in an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can prevent the Flex Image control to automatically loading an image when setting the Image control’s source property by setting the autoLoad property to false and then explicitly loading the image using the load() method.

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Maintaining an image’s aspect ratio on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can maintain a loaded image’s original aspect ratio on a Flex Image control by setting the maintainAspectRatio property.

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