Setting the border color on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 20, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the border alpha on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the border alpha on a Spark DropDownList control’s popup menu in Flex 4 by setting the borderAlpha style.

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Setting the border alpha on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the border alpha on a Spark DropDownList control’s popup menu in Flex 4 by setting the borderAlpha style.

 

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Skinning the track on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 19, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can reskin the track on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4 by creating a custom HSlider skin and specifying the track skin part’s skinClass style.

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Setting the line height on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the line height on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 by setting the lineHeight style.

 

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Creating a justified multiline Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 9, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a multiline, justified label on Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the textAlign style and removing the maxDisplayedLines property.

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Creating a drop down DataGrid control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 9, 2010 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a drop down MX DataGrid control in Flex 4 using the Spark PopUpAnchor control in Flex 4.

 

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Setting the slide duration on a Spark HScrollBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 28, 2010 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4 by setting the slideDuration style.

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Preventing the selected item highlighting in the Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 25, 2010 · 10 Comments

In a previous example, “Preventing item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4″, we saw how you can prevent item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the changing event and calling the preventDefault() method on the IndexChangeEvent event object instance.

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Preventing item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 25, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can prevent item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the changing event and calling the preventDefault() method on the IndexChangeEvent event object instance.

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Using embedded fonts with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 24, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the MX AdvancedDataGrid control in Flex 4 by setting the embedAsCFF and fontFamily styles.

 

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Setting the font weight on the MX Legend control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the font weight on a charting Legend control in Flex”, we saw how you could set the font weight of a Flex Charting Legend control by setting the fontWeight style on the LegendItem CSS selector.

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Listening for a click on the MX MenuBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 19, 2010 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect a click on the MX MenuBar control in Flex by using the menuBarItems array and adding an event listener for the click event to a specific MenuBarItem.

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