Setting the disabled text color on a TextArea control in Flex

By On April 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text color on an enabled and disabled Flex TextArea control by setting the color and disabledColor styles.

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Checking whether a color name is a valid color in Flex using the StyleManager class

By On September 13, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how to use the static StyleManager.isColorName() method to check whether a color name is valid or not. This method takes a single parameter, colorName, and returns a Boolean value representing whether the parameter is a valid alias for a color.

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Substituting values in strings using the Flex StringUtil class’s substitute() method

By On September 8, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can substitute values in a string with specified values using the static StringUtil.substitute() method in Flex. Similar to the printf() and sprintf() methods in other languages.

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Checking if a character is whitespace using the Flex StringUtil class’s isWhitespace() method

By On September 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can check whether a character is a whitespace character by using the isWhitespace() method in the mx.utils.StringUtil class. And just for giggles, I also show how you can do the same thing using regular expressions (RegExp) with POSIX character classes.

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Trimming strings using the Flex StringUtil class’s trimArrayElements() method

By On September 7, 2007 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove leading and trailing spaces from an Array using the Flex StringUtil class’s trimArrayElements() method.

Similar to my earlier post, “Trimming strings using the Flex StringUtil class’s trim() method“, the StringUtil class has another rediculously handy method, trimArrayElements().

Essentially, this method allows you to trim leading and [...]

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Trimming strings using the Flex StringUtil class’s trim() method

By On September 7, 2007 · 7 Comments

The following example shows you how to use the StringUtil.trim() method in Flex to remove leading and trailing whitespace from form fields before validating user input. This allows you to make sure that user’s don’t try anything sneaky like enter spaces instead of characters to bypass any minimum length validation you may have in place [...]

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Converting color names to numbers using the StyleManager class

By On September 6, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following examples show how you can convert color names (such as “red”, “haloSilver”, “#FFFFFF”, and “0xFFFF00″) into numeric values, using the StyleManager class’s static getColorName() method and getColorNames() method.

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