Styling individual thumbs in the MX HSlider control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can apply styles to individual thumbs in a MX HSlider control in Flex by calling the getThumbAt() method to get a specific thumb and then calling the setStyle() method to apply the styles.

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Setting the fill colors on a Halo Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the fill colors on a Halo Button control (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the gradient colors in the fill layer:

<!– layer 2: fill –> <s:rect left="1" right="1" top="1" bottom="1" radiusX="2" radiusY="2"> <s:fill> <s:lineargradient rotation="90"> <s:gradiententry color="red" color.overStates="haloGreen" [...]

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Setting the fill colors on a CheckBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the check box fill colors on a Flex CheckBox control by setting the fillColors style.

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Changing the background fill colors on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the background fill colors for a Flex ComboBox control by setting the fillColors style.

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Changing the fill colors of a Button control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 2, 2008 · 1 Comment

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

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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 individual tabs in a TabBar control

By Peter deHaan On November 19, 2007 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can style individual tabs in a Flex TabBar control by calling the getChildAt() method on the tab bar, and then calling setStyle() on the returned Tab reference.

A big thanks to Joan for helping me figure it out.

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Customizing the Accordion header in Flex 3

By Peter deHaan On October 26, 2007 · 25 Comments

The following example shows how you can set some of the deprecated styles in the Accordion container (such as fillAlphas, fillColors, and selectedFillColors) by using the headerStyleName style.

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