Removing the increment and decrement buttons on a FxVScrollBar control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On February 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can remove the increment and decrement buttons on a Flex Gumbo FxVScrollBar control by creating a custom skin and setting the skinClass style.

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Setting margins on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On January 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set the margins on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the marginLeft, marginRight, marginTop, and marginBottom styles.

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Exporting the text in a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On January 17, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can export the contents of a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by calling the export() method.

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Setting a content background color on an FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On January 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the content background color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

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Setting a base color on an FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On January 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a base color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the baseColor style.

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Setting a symbol color on an FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On January 5, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a symbol color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the symbolColor style.

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Controlling text justification on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can control the text spacing on justified text on the Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the textJustify style.

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Determining the current scroll position on an FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 9, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can get a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control’s current vertical scroll position and maximum scroll position by accessing the FxTextArea control’s internal FxScroller instance’s vertical scroll bar.

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Looping over paragraphs in the FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 6, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can loop over the paragraphs in a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control using the export() method and E4X.

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Setting the break opportunity on an FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the break opportunity for a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the breakOpportunity style to one of the static constants in the flash.text.engine.BreakOpportunity class.

Currently, there are four possible values:

BreakOpportunity.ALL: Treats all characters in the ContentElement object as mandatory line break opportunities. You can use this [...]

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Determining when the user has selected all text in a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On November 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use the selectAll event to determine when the user uses the context menu or a keyboard command (Ctrl+A/Command+A) to select all text in a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control.

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Setting the column width on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On November 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the column width on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the columnWidth style.

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