Setting the background alpha on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero

By Peter deHaan On September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

 

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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 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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Displaying a semi-transparent FLV file in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can display an FLV file with alpha channel transparency in an MX VideoDisplay control in Flex 3 by setting the backgroundAlpha style to 0.

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Setting the background alpha on a Spark SimpleText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 15, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha and background color on a Spark SimpleText control in Flex 4 by setting the backgroundAlpha and backgroundColor styles.

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Changing the background alpha on the Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 9, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on the Halo TextArea control’s Spark skin in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style. As you may have noticed, the Halo components have new “Spark” themed skins in Flex 4 (basically so you can use Halo+Spark components in the same Flex project and [...]

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Setting the background alpha of the RichTextEditor text area in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, Setting the background color of the RichTextEditor text area in Flex, we saw how you could set the background color of the RichTextEditor control’s nested TextArea control by setting the backgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha of the Flex RichTextEditor control’s nested TextArea [...]

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Changing the background alpha of a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha for a Flex TextArea control by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

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Setting the background color and background alpha for a NumericStepper control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 23, 2008 · 2 Comments

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

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Changing the background color of the DateChooser control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 2, 2008 · 4 Comments

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

Full code after the jump.

 

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Setting the background alpha on a VideoDisplay control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the background color on a VideoDisplay control in Flex”, we saw how you could modify the background color of a VideoDisplay control in Flex by setting the backgroundColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Flex VideoDisplay control by setting the backgroundAlpha [...]

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Setting the background alpha on a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 12, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the border alpha on a Panel container in Flex”, we saw how you could change a panel’s border alpha by setting the borderAlpha style.

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Flex Panel container by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

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