Creating a solid color fill on a Spark Ellipse object in Flex 4

By On November 26, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a solid color fill on a Spark Ellipse object in Flex 4 by setting the fill property to a SolidColor object.

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Using graphical and text primitives in Flex Gumbo

By On October 30, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how to draw an ellipse in a Flex Gumbo application using the new Ellipse graphic primitive in FXG.

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Adding a stroke around a ColumnSeries item in a Flex ColumnChart control

By On November 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a stroke around chart items in a Flex ColumnChart control.

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Alternating background row colors in a Flex LineSeries chart

By On November 15, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can alternate background row colors in a LineSeries chart in Flex by setting the horizontalAlternateFill style in the GridLines object, as seen in the following snippet:

<mx:LineChart showDataTips="true" dataProvider="{dp}"> <mx:backgroundElements> <mx:GridLines> <mx:horizontalAlternateFill> <mx:SolidColor color="haloSilver" alpha="0.25" /> </mx:horizontalAlternateFill> </mx:GridLines> </mx:backgroundElements> </mx:LineChart>

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Drawing transparent pie wedges in a Flex PieChart control

By On November 11, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create transparent wedges in a Flex PieChart control by setting the SolidColor object’s alpha property to 0, as seen in the following snippet:

<mx:PieChart dataProvider="{arrColl}" height="100%" width="100%"> <mx:series> <mx:PieSeries id="pieSeries" field="data"> <mx:fills> <mx:SolidColor alpha="0.0" /> <mx:SolidColor color="haloBlue" alpha="1.0" /> </mx:fills> <mx:filters> <mx:Array /> </mx:filters> </mx:PieSeries> </mx:series> </mx:PieChart>

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Changing the default fill colors in a Flex PieChart control

By On November 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following examples show how you can change the default fill colors for a Flex PieChart control by setting the fills style using either CSS or MXML.

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Creating custom fills in a Flex PieChart control using the fillFunction property

By On November 7, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set fill colors in a Flex PieChart by specifying a custom fill function. In this example the fill function calculates the fill color based on the percentage value of each item. The larger the wedge, the brigher the fill color.

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