Setting a gradient background fill on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the background fill color on a Halo TextArea control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the background fill color on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundColor style.

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Removing the border from the Halo Tree control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove or modify the border on the Halo Tree control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting a control bar background image fill on a Halo Panel control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 8, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the control bar background image fill on a Halo Panel control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting a title background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Setting a background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could can a repeating background image fill on a Halo Alert control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

The following example shows how you can set the [...]

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Removing the default dropshadow from the Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can remove the default dropshadow from the Halo Alert control (with default Spark skins) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting a background image fill on a Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a repeating background image fill on a Halo Alert control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the borderSkin style.

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Setting the background fill image on a Halo DataGrid in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

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

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Setting the corner radius on the Halo Alert control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 20, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on the Halo TextArea control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the radiusX and radiusY properties on the Rect objects (in Flex 3 and earlier this was done by setting the cornerRadius style directly).

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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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Removing the border skin on a List control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 2, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove the border skin on a Flex List control by setting the borderSkin style to null using MXML, CSS, and ActionScript.

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