Styling the emphasized button on an MX Alert control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On September 25, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the emphasized button on a Halo/MX Alert control in Flex 4 by setting the buttonStyleName and emphasizedSkin styles.

 

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Setting an image background on a Halo ButtonBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set an image background on a Halo ButtonBar control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the buttonStyleName, firstButtonStyleName, lastButtonStyleName, and skin styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting a label’s font weight on a Flex LinkBar and ToggleButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 14, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the font weight of a label on LinkBar control and ToggleButton control in Flex by setting the linkButtonStyleName style and buttonStyleName style respectively.

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Setting skins on the the Flex ButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 10, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can skin the ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName style and setting one or more of the following skin styles: skin, upSkin, overSkin, downSkin, disabledSkin.

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Setting the button label text alignment in a Flex ButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the text alignment of button labels in a ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName and textAlign styles.

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Setting the button corner radius in a Flex ButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 7, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on a ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName and cornerRadius styles.

 

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Styling the Alert control’s nested buttons

By Peter deHaan On January 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the buttons in an Alert control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Changing the fill colors of a ButtonBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 2, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the background fill colors of a ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName, fillColors, and fillAlphas styles.

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Styling the Flex Alert control

By Peter deHaan On August 11, 2007 · 17 Comments

This is a more complex version of my previous example. This time in addition to making the Alert control’s text non-selectable, we use an embedded font for the Alert title, message, buttons, as well as edit the drop shadow, remove the rounded corners, and remove the button skins.

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Styling buttons in an Alert control

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a basic example of applying a custom style to an Alert control’s buttons and giving them a nice, rounded effect.

Full code after the jump.

 

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