Adding scroll bars to an Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On November 3, 2010 · 11 Comments

The following example shows how you can add scroll bars to a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin, adding a Spark Scroller container around the contentGroup skin part, and setting the skinClass style on the Application tag.

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Creating a bitmap fill on a Spark Application container control bar in Flex 4

By On April 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a bitmap fill on a Spark Application container control bar in Flex 4 by setting the skinClass style and using a BitmapFill.

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Setting the height of the control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On April 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set an explicit height on the Spark Application container control bar by setting the height property on the controlBarGroup skin part.

By default the control bar sizes itself to its content, so I don’t really recommend setting an explicit height unless you really want to.

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Setting the background color on a Spark Application control bar in Flex 4

By On October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background fill color on a Spark Application container’s control bar in Flex 4 by setting the skinClass style and modifying the control bar fill:

<!– layer 1: control bar fill –> <s:rect left="1" right="1" top="1" bottom="2"> <s:fill> <s:lineargradient rotation="90"> <s:gradiententry color="0×333333" /> <s:gradiententry color="0×666666" /> </s:lineargradient> [...]

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Toggling the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On October 3, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean controlBarVisible property.

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Creating a vertical application control bar on a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On September 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can create a vertical application control bar on a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by creating a custom Application skin and setting the skinClass style.

Full code after the jump.

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Adding a gradient background to a Spark Application container control bar in Flex 4

By On September 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a gradient background Spark Application control bar in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the skinClass style.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting the control bar layout on a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Adding a control bar to a Spark Application container in Flex 4″, we saw how you could add a control bar to a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by setting the controlBarContent property.

The following example shows how you can change the layout direction of a control bar in [...]

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Adding a control bar to a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a control bar to a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by setting the controlBarContent property.

Full code after the jump.

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Disabling a Spark Application container in Flex 4

By On August 14, 2009 · 7 Comments

In a previous example, “Disabling an Application in Flex 3″, we saw how you could disable an entire Flex Application in Flex 3 by setting the Boolean enabled property on the application object.

The following example shows how you can disable an entire Spark Application in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean enabled property [...]

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Adding a control bar to a custom Spark Application component in Flex 4

By On June 8, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can extend the default Spark Application container in Flex 4 and add an ApplicationControlBar by setting the skinClass style. The custom Spark Application skin also adds some default padding, support for horizontal and vertical scroll bars, sets the default layout to a VerticalLayout object, and adds some default padding.

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Setting a repeating background image on a Spark Application in Flex 4

By On March 23, 2009 · 5 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a background image on an Spark Application in Flex 4″, we saw how you can add a scaled background image to a Flex 4 Spark Application by creating a custom skin with a BitmapGraphic and setting the skinClass style in MXML, CSS, or ActionScript.

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