Styling the text selection format on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On September 5, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the text selection format on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the focusedSelectionFormat property on the TextFlow’s interactionManager to a new SelectionFormat object.

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Changing the background color of a disabled Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On May 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Changing the background color of a disabled TextArea control in Flex”, we saw how you can change the background color of a disabled MX TextArea control by setting the use the backgroundDisabledColor style.

The following example shows how you can change the background color of a disabled Spark TextArea control [...]

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Creating a bitmap fill in a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On April 12, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a bitmap fill in a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin with a Spark BitmapFill object and setting the skinClass style.

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Programmatically scrolling the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On February 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can programmatically scroll the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the vertical scroll position on the horizontal and vertical scroll bars in the scroller, horizontalScrollBar, and verticalScrollBar skin parts.

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Creating a vertically auto resizing Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On January 18, 2010 · 34 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 which resizes vertically when lines are added or removed by setting the heightInLines property to NaN (Not a Number).

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Setting a gradient background fill on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On October 24, 2009 · 5 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting a gradient background fill on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could create a linear gradient background on a Halo/MX TextArea control in Flex 4 by creating a custom border skin with a LinearGradient fill and setting the borderSkin style.

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Defining tab stops on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On September 29, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set up tab stops on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the tabStops style.

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Setting the focus alpha on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On September 8, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the focus alpha on the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the focusAlpha style.

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Inserting and appending text into a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On August 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can insert and append text into a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by using the insertText() and appendText() methods.

appendText() — Appends the specified text to the end of the RichEditableText, as if you had clicked at the end and typed it. When RichEditableText supports vertical scrolling, [...]

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Auto-scrolling a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On August 3, 2009 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Auto-scrolling a TextArea control in Flex”, we saw how you could auto-scroll a Flex Halo TextArea control when new content is added by setting the verticalScrollPosition property to the value of the maxVerticalScrollPosition property.

The following example shows how you can auto-scroll a Flex 4 Spark TextArea control using the [...]

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Creating a simple text editor using the Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By On July 24, 2009 · 49 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple rich text editor control in Flex 4 using the Spark TextArea control and using the getFormatOfRange() and setFormatOfRange() methods.

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Styling hyperlinks in a TextFlow object in Flex 4

By On June 28, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can style links in a TextFlow object in Flex 4 by specifying the linkNormalFormat, linkHoverFormat, and linkActiveFormat properties.

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