Styling Alert controls in Flex using the StyleManager class and setStyle() method (Flex 4 Edition)

By On April 6, 2009 · 4 Comments

In a previous example, “Styling Alert controls in Flex using the StyleManager class and setStyle() methods”, we saw how to style a Flex Alert control using the static StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration() method, and the setStyle() method.

The following example shows how you can do the same thing using the beta Flex 4 SDK by passing a [...]

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Dynamically styling error tips in Flex

By On September 26, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing the background color of an error tip in Flex”, we saw how you could change the background color of a Flex error tip by setting the borderColor style on the .errorTip CSS selector.

The following example shows how you can style the Flex .errorTip style dynamically using ActionScript using [...]

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Setting the letter spacing in the RichTextEditor control in Flex

By On April 22, 2008 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the letter spacing in a Flex RichTextEditor control by setting the textAreaStyleName and letterSpacing styles.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Styling Alert controls in Flex using the StyleManager class and setStyle() methods

By On February 29, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can style a Flex Alert control using the static StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration() method, and the setStyle() method.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Loading cascading style sheets on the fly using the Flex StyleManager class

By On December 12, 2007 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can dynamically load a cascading style sheet SWF into your Flex application using the static StyleManager.loadStyleDeclarations() method.

Full code after the jump.

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Changing default line colors in a Flex LineChart control

By On November 13, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the line colors in a LineChart in Flex by setting the lineStroke style in MXML or ActionScript, as seen in the following snippets:

MXML:

<mx:LineSeries id=”closeSeries” yField=”@close” form=”curve” displayName=”Close”> <mx:lineStroke> <mx:Stroke color=”haloGreen” weight=”2″ alpha=”0.6″ /> </mx:lineStroke> </mx:LineSeries>

ActionScript:

<mx:LineSeries id=”closeSeries” yField=”@close” form=”curve” displayName=”Close” /> … closeSeries.setStyle(“lineStroke”, new [...]

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Changing text alignment in an Flex Accordion header

By On September 13, 2007 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the textAlign style to control the text alignment of a label in an Accordion header.

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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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Building a simple style browser in Flex 3

By On September 12, 2007 · 4 Comments

In my previous post, “Introducing the StyleManager.selectors property in Flex 3“, we looked at the new StyleManager class’s static selectors property introduced in Flex 3.

This example shows how you can make a simple app which lets you loop over styles currently registered with the StyleManager and display their current style names and values.

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Introducing the StyleManager.selectors property in Flex 3

By On September 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I was testing this today, and thought some people might find it useful. In more recent builds of the Flex 3 SDK, the StyleManager now includes a new static, read-only property, selectors. To quote the bug notes:

…This property returns an array of strings representing all of the selectors registered with the StyleManager.

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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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