Setting the text roll over color on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Setting the text roll over color on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could change the text roll over color for a Flex MX ComboBox control by setting the textRollOverColor style.

The following example shows how you can change the text roll over color in the Spark [...]

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Scrolling to a specific index in a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 12, 2010 · 6 Comments

In a previous example, “Scrolling to a specific index in a Flex List control”, we saw how you could scroll to a specific item index in Flex by using the scrollToIndex() method.

The following example shows how you can scroll to a specific item index in a Spark List control in Flex 4 by [...]

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Setting a conditional text color on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text color on a Spark List control item renderer label in Flex 4 by setting the color style in the item renderer’s dataChange event handler.

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Setting a custom context menu on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a custom context menu on a Spark List control item renderer in Flex 4 by setting the contextMenu property in the item renderer’s dataChange event.

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Setting the background alpha on the MX LinkBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on an MX LinkBar control in Flex 4 by setting the contentBackgroundAlpha style.

 

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Setting a solid tab fill on a Spark TabBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 4, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a solid fill on a Spark TabBar control in Flex 4 by creating a custom TabBarButton skin and setting the skinClass style.

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Setting the focus color on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 3, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the focus color on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4 by setting the focusColor style.

 

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Determining if the scroll bars are visible in a Spark Scroller container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 30, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine if the vertical and/or horizontal scroll bars are visible on a Spark Scroller container in Flex 4 by checking the verticalScrollBar or horizontalScrollBar skin part’s Boolean visible property.

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Changing the header text color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 30, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the header text color on a Spark Panel container in Flex 4 by setting the color style on the titleDisplay skin part.

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Rewinding a video when changing the selected item in the MX Accordion container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 29, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can rewind a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 when the selected MX Accordion container changes its selected item by listening for the hide event on the Spark NavigatorContent container and calling the seek() method on the VideoPlayer instance.

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