Creating blinking text on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 13, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a blinking text effect on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 using a simple property animation with the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes to tween the alpha property.

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Modifying the corner white box on an MX Container when scroll bars are visible in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can modify the visibility and alpha of the white box in the lower-right corner of an MX Container in Flex when both the horizontal and vertical scroll bars are visible by using the rawChildren property and getChildByName() method.

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Setting the disabled alpha on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Styling the disabled state on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could style the disabled state on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4 using CSS.

The following example shows how you can set the alpha of the disabled state of a Spark TextInput control [...]

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Creating a semi-transparent item renderer on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a semi-transparent item renderer on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom Spark List skin and a custom item renderer which sets the alpha property on the selected/hovered states.

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Setting the alpha on a Spark Panel container title bar in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 3, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a Spark Panel container with a semi-transparent title bar in Flex 4 by creating a custom Spark Panel skin and setting the alpha property on the tbFill, tbHilite, and tbDiv skin parts, and then setting the backgroundAlpha style on the Panel container.

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Setting the video alpha on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 24, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the video alpha on a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by setting the alpha property on the VideoPlayer instance’s videoDisplay property.

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Creating a transparent Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a semi-transparent Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the alpha property on the background fill.

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Creating a transparent Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 2, 2009 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a semi-transparent Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundAlpha style.

 

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