Displaying icons in a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can display icons in a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer and setting the itemRenderer property.

 

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Changing the mouse cursor when rolling over items in an MX List control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the mouse cursor when rolling over an item in an MX List control in Flex by listening for the itemRollOver and itemRollOut events and using the CursorManager.

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Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex Tree control

By Peter deHaan On April 4, 2008 · 32 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a simple image gallery in Flex using a Tree control and a SWFLoader control.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Preventing specific items from being selected in a Flex Tree control

By Peter deHaan On January 16, 2008 · 10 Comments

In a previous example, “Preventing branches from being selected in a Flex Tree control”, we saw how we could prevent users from selecting branches (folders) in a Tree container in Flex by using the itemClick event and the Tree class’s dataDescriptor.isBranch() method.

The following example shows you how you can prevent any item from [...]

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Removing duplicate items from an array using the Array.filter() method

By Peter deHaan On August 5, 2007 · 10 Comments

I’m sure there is an easier/better way to do this (and I’ll update this post accordingly if I find one) but here is a little sample which takes an array of items and filters out the duplicates.

Full code after the jump.

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