The following example shows how you can toggle which sides of a Flex TextInput control display the borderSides and borderStyle styles.
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The following example shows how you can detect when a user double clicks a Flex TextInput control using the doubleClick event.
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The following example shows how you can apply a corner radius to specific corners of a Flex TextInput control’s focus rectangle by setting the focusRoundedCorners style.
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The following example shows how you can restrict which characters a user can enter into a Flex TextInput control by setting the restrict property.
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The following example shows how you can change the focus rectangle color for a Flex TextInput control by setting the themeColor style.
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The following example shows you how you can use a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with its displayAsPassword property set to true. By mousing over the credit card number field in the form below, you can see your credit card number in a readable tool tip.
Want the short version? Use a simple binding to bind the tool tip text to the TextInput control’s text, as seen in the following snippet:
<mx:TextInput id="ccNumber"
text="4111111111111111"
displayAsPassword="true"
toolTip="{ccNumber.text}" />
Looking for a longer version? Read on!
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We’ve already seen how to get a TextInput control to display its text as a masked password field before in an earlier example, “Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex” by setting the displayAsPassword property to true.
The following example will show you how you can listen for the focusIn and focusOut events to toggle the displayAsPassword property so that when the password field has focus the text is displayed as plain text, and when the password field does not have focus the text is displayed as masked text.
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The following example shows you how you can toggle between plain text and text masked as a password by setting the displayAsPassword property on a TextInput control in Flex.
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The following example shows how you can use the backgroundDisabledColor style to customize the overlay color on a Flex TextInput control when the control’s enabled property is set to false.
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The following example shows how you can customize a Flex TextInput control’s error color and error string using the errorColor style and errorString property.
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The following example shows how you can easily create a drop shadow effect on a TextInput control using the dropShadowEnabled style (instead of creating a DropShadowFilter), as well as control the drop shadow effect’s color, direction, and distance (using the dropShadowColor, shadowDirection, and shadowDistance styles, respectively).
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