Toggling the drop shadow on a Panel container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 19, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on a Flex Panel container by setting the dropShadowEnabled style.

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Displaying a drop shadow behind a VBox container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 24, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a drop shadow behind a Flex VBox container by setting the borderStyle and dropShadowEnabled styles.

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Toggling a drop shadow on the List control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle a drop shadow on a Flex List control by setting the dropShadowEnabled style.

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Toggling the drop shadow on the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on the Flex ComboBox control by setting the dropShadowEnabled style on the ComboBox control’s dropdown menu.

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Removing the drop shadow from the DateField control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On December 23, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can remove the default drop shadow from the nested DateChooser control in a Flex DateField control by setting the dropShadowEnabled style.

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Creating drop shadows on the Flex TextArea control

By Peter deHaan On September 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can control the drop shadow on a Flex TextArea control using the dropShadowColor, shadowDirection, and shadowDistance styles.

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Creating drop shadows on the Flex TextInput control

By Peter deHaan On August 30, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can easily create a drop shadow effect on a TextInput control using the dropShadowEnabled style (instead of creating a DropShadowFilter), as well as control the drop shadow effect’s color, direction, and distance (using the dropShadowColor, shadowDirection, and shadowDistance styles, respectively).

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