The following example shows how you can set the font sharpness on a Flex Label control by setting the fontSharpness and fontAntiAliasType styles.
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The following example shows how you can set the font thickness on a Flex Label control by setting the fontThickness and fontAntiAliasType styles.
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The following example shows you how you create a custom Label control in Flex that masks its text as a password by setting the Label control’s nested protected UITextField control’s displayAsPassword property.
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The following example shows how you can use the truncateToFit property in the Label control in Flex to truncate strings if they exceed a specified width. The label control will terminate the string with “…” and allow you to roll over the text and read the entire (non-truncated) text in a tool tip, as seen in the following snippet:
<mx:Label text="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
truncateToFit="true"
maxWidth="200" />
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The following example shows how you can use the link event with the Label control in Flex to handle hyperlinks embedded within a string of text. By using the “event:” prefix in the href property of an anchor (<a />) tag, you can handle links within your Flex application, use the ExternalInterface API to call JavaScript from Flex, or do pretty much whatever else you want.
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