Toggling child recycling on a Repeater in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle child recycling in a Repeater object in Flex by setting the Boolean recycleChildren property.

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Using the Repeater class in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 10, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the Repeater class with Flex 4. The trick to using the Repeater class in Flex 4 is that the repeater must be within an MX container (HBox, VBox, Canvas, mx:Panel, mx:Application, etc).

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Displaying CheckBox controls using the Repeater in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 29, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a series of CheckBox controls using the Flex Repeater with an Array data provider.

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Displaying RadioButton controls using the Repeater in Flex (redux)

By Peter deHaan On May 28, 2008 · 17 Comments

In a previous example, “Displaying RadioButton controls using the Repeater in Flex”, we saw how you could use a Repeater in MXML to display a series of Flex RadioButton controls based on a data provider.

The following example shows how you can create a Repeater using ActionScript to accomplish the same thing.

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Displaying RadioButton controls using the Repeater in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 28, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can display a series of RadioButtons using the Flex Repeater with an Array data provider.

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Creating a pop up TitleWindow using the PopUpButton control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 13, 2008 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a pop up TitleWindow container using the Flex PopUpButton control.

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Creating a resizing ToolBar in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 6, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a toolbar in Flex by using the ToolBar container which automatically wraps and re-lays out its children when the toolbar is resized. According to the documentation in the class file (see [SDK Directory]\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\richTextEditorClasses\ToolBar.as):

The ToolBar container lays out its children in a single horizontal row. If [...]

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Displaying images from an XML file using the Repeater component

By Peter deHaan On October 3, 2007 · 12 Comments

The following example shows you how to use the Repeater component to display images loaded from an external XML file.

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