Styling tooltips in Flex 4

By On August 30, 2009 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of a ToolTip in Flex 4 by overriding the ToolTip selector in an <fx:Style/> block, or using the StyleManager in ActionScript.

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Setting the tooltip on the full screen button on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By On May 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the tooltip on the full screen button on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by setting the toolTip property on the fullScreenButton reference.

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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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Changing the background color of an error tip in Flex

By On May 22, 2008 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the background color of a Flex error tip by setting the borderColor style on the .errorTip CSS selector.

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Using embedded fonts with tool tips in Flex

By On March 26, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with an error tool tip in Flex.

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Creating a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with password masked text

By On January 28, 2008 · 2 Comments

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.

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Creating tool tips on the Flex RichTextEditor control

By On November 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can set tool tips on each element of the RichTextEditor control in Flex.

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Setting a Flex tool tip’s maximum width

By On September 5, 2007 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the static ToolTip.maxWidth property in Flex to control the maximum width of a tool tip.

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Adding animations and effects to Flex tool tips

By On September 4, 2007 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can add custom animation and effects when displaying a tool tip in Flex.

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Controlling a Flex tool tip’s show delay, hide delay, and scrub delay

By On September 3, 2007 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can control how long Flex will wait to display a tool tip after the user moves the mouse over a control, how long the tool tip will be visible before disappearing and how long a user can take when moving the mouse between controls before Flex waits to display [...]

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Globally disabling tool tips using the Flex ToolTipManager class

By On September 3, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable and disable tool tips globally within a Flex application by setting the ToolTipManager.enabled property.

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Customizing a Flex ToolTip instance’s appearance using styles

By 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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