Setting the background fill alpha on a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundAlpha style and setting the alternatingItemColors style to an empty array.

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Setting alternating item colors on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 8, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set alternating item colors on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4 by setting the alternatingItemColors style.

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Setting the background color on a Halo DataGrid control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the content background color on a Halo DataGrid control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor and alternatingItemColors styles.

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Alternating tile background colors for items in a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 10, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set alternating background colors for tiles in a Flex TileList control by setting the alternatingItemColors style using MXML, CSS or ActionScript.

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Setting the background alpha and background color of a DataGrid control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 6, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha and background color of a Flex DataGrid control by setting the backgroundAlpha and backgroundColor styles.

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Setting alternating item colors on a Flex PopUpButton control

By Peter deHaan On January 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set alternating item colors on a PopUpButton control in Flex by setting the popUpStyleName and alternatingItemColors styles.

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Setting alternating colors on a Flex HorizontalList control

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can alternate item colors in a HorizontalList control in Flex by setting the alternatingItemColors style.

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Alternating item colors in ComboBox dropdown

By Peter deHaan On December 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set alternating item/row colors in a ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by setting the alternatingItemColors style using MXML, ActionScript or CSS

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Alternating row colors in a Flex Tree control using the alternatingItemColors style

By Peter deHaan On November 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can alternate item colors in a Flex Tree control by setting the alternatingItemColors style to an array of colors.

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Creating a Flex DataGrid control with a transparent background

By Peter deHaan On August 31, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example demonstrates how you can create a Flex DataGrid control with a transparent background by setting the backgroundAlpha style to 0.0, and the alternatingItemColors style to an empty array.

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Alternating row colors in a Flex List control

By Peter deHaan On August 17, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can alternate row colors in a List control using the alternatingItemColors style.

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Toggling a DataGrid control’s horizontal grid lines and vertical grid lines

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 3 Comments

OK, this is a pretty neat trick. Flex makes it pretty easy to customize the look and feel of the DataGrid. For example, the following code lets you toggle the data grid’s horizontalGridLines and verticalGridLines styles on or off, change the alternating row background colors so each row is a plain white, and sets the [...]

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