Hiding specific items in a data provider based on the current application state in Flex Gumbo

By On February 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle specific strings based on the Flex Gumbo application’s current state by using the includeIn and excludeFrom attributes on the String object.

For more information see “Exploring the new states syntax in Flex Gumbo” and the “Enhanced States Syntax – Functional and Design Specification” page at [...]

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Exploring the new states syntax in Flex Gumbo

By On August 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following examples show the new enhanced state syntax in the beta Flex Gumbo SDK. For more information and examples on the new state syntax, see the spec at http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating view states in a Flex application

By On October 5, 2007 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can create different view states in a Flex application by using the <mx:states /> and <mx:State /> tags.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Toggling a Flex container’s visibility using states

By On August 24, 2007 · 11 Comments

In a previous post, “Toggling a Flex container’s visibility”, we looked at toggling a VBox container’s visibility by setting both the visible property and includeInLayout property. While the approach felt a little crude, we can build the same thing using the much more powerful view states. What are view states and how do we [...]

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