Using the new Fx prefix-less Flex Gumbo builds

By Peter deHaan On April 2, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can use styles in a <Style/> block to style a Spark Button and TextInput control as well as a Halo Button and TextInput control.

To compile this example, you’ll need to download the nightly beta Flex Gumbo build 5873 (4.0.0.5873) or newer. The latest Gumbo SDK builds can be [...]

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Positioning items in Flex using a constraint based layout

By Peter deHaan On September 26, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following examples show how you can position items in an absolute-based layout using the top, bottom, left, right, horizontalCenter, and verticalCenter styles.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Styling the Flex TabNavigator control

By Peter deHaan On September 26, 2007 · 29 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the TabNavigator control in Flex using the tabStyleName, firstTabStyleName, lastTabStyleName, and selectedTabTextStyleName styles.

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Setting a Flex container’s background disabled color and disabled overlay alpha

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how to use the backgroundDisabledColor and disabledOverlayAlpha styles to add a nice overlay to a container when the container’s enabled property is set to false.

Full code after the jump.

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Building a simple style browser in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan 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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Styling a Button control

By Peter deHaan On September 9, 2007 · 11 Comments

I was going through my blog the other night and it occurred to me, I do a pretty half-assed job of explaining things on my blog. For instance, take something basic like styling a Button. Usually I’ll just show how to use a single style, property, method, or technique and call it a day. Very [...]

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Customizing a Flex ToolTip instance’s appearance using styles

By Peter deHaan On September 1, 2007 · 12 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the Flex ToolTip using a <mx:Style /> block.

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Setting a Flex Button control’s border color and theme color

By Peter deHaan On August 17, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the Button control’s borderColor and themeColor properties to one of the special Flex “halo” colors (“haloBlue”, “haloGreen”, “haloOrange” or “haloSilver”). Note that you can also use any other named or hex color as well, such as “red” or 0xFF0000.

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