Setting tab stops on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can use tab stops on a Spark RichText primitive in Flex 4 by setting the tabStops style.

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Setting text alignment on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 22, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment and text direction in a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the textAlign and direction styles.

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Setting the button height on a ButtonBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the button height on a Flex ButtonBar control by setting the buttonHeight style.

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Setting the layout direction of a TileList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 23, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the item layout direction of the Flex TileList control by setting the direction property to “horizontal” or “vertical”.

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Changing the layout direction of a form item in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 18, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can change the direction of a FormItem container in Flex by setting the direction property to “horizontal” or “vertical”.

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Setting the layout direction of a Flex ControlBar container

By Peter deHaan On February 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the child layout direction of a ControlBar container in Flex by setting the direction property.

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Setting horizontal and vertical gaps between buttons in a Flex ButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 8, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can control the horizontal and vertical gaps between buttons in a ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the verticalGap and horizontalGap styles.

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Changing a Box container’s direction in Flex

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

The following example shows you how you can change the direction of a Box container in Flex by setting the direction property to one of the constants in the BoxDirection class. The <mx:Box /> container is the superclass of the HBox container and VBox container. The subclasses (HBox and VBox) do not add any new [...]

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Changing a chart legend’s direction

By Peter deHaan On November 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the direction of a Flex chart’s legend by setting the direction property, as seen in the following snippet:

<mx:Legend dataProvider=”{lineChart}” direction=”horizontal” />

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Displaying grid lines in a Flex LineChart control

By Peter deHaan On November 15, 2007 · 16 Comments

The following example shows how you can add horizontal or vertical (or both) grid lines to a LineChart contol in Flex by setting the direction style in the GridLines tags, as seen in the following snippet:

<mx:LineChart dataProvider="{dp}"> <mx:backgroundElements> <mx:GridLines direction="vertical" /> </mx:backgroundElements> </mx:LineChart>

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Changing a Flex ProgressBar control’s direction

By Peter deHaan On October 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change whether a ProgressBar control fills from left-to-right or right-to-left by changing the direction property to one of the static constants in the mx.controls.ProgressBarDirection class.

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Changing a Tile container’s child layout direction

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example lets you change a Tile container’s direction property to control whether the container’s children are arranged from left to right, or top to bottom. You can also use two slider controls to change the value of the tileWidth and tileHeight properties.

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