Setting the border color on the MX Accordion container headers in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 23, 2010 · 9 Comments

In a previous example, “Setting the border style on the MX Accordion container in Flex”, we saw how you could set the border style on an MX Accordion container in Flex 3 by setting the borderStyle style.

The following example shows how you can set the border color on an MX Accordion container headers [...]

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Using a CFF embedded font with an MX Accordion container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use a CFF embedded font with a MX Accordion container by setting the textFieldClass style on the MX Accordion container’s header to the mx.core.UIFTETextField class.

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Setting the base theme color on a Halo Accordion container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the base theme color on a Halo Accordion container in Flex 4 by setting the baseColor style.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a repeating image header background on a Halo Accordion container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On July 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can create a custom, repeating image header background on a Halo Accordion container (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by setting the headerStyleName and skin styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a custom MX Accordion header skin in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 21, 2009 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can style the MX Accordion header (with default Spark skin) in Flex 4 by creating a new skin based on the default Spark skin and modifying the various skin parts.

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Setting the column header text color on a DataGrid control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 23, 2009 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text color of a Flex DataGrid control’s column header text by setting the headerStyleName and color styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex (redux)

By Peter deHaan On October 12, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex”, we saw how you could set the text alignment on a Flex DataGrid control’s DataGridColumn by setting the headerStyleName and textAlign styles.

The following example shows a few more methods of aligning data and headers in a DataGrid and individual [...]

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Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2008 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Flex DataGrid control’s DataGridColumn by setting the headerStyleName and textAlign styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Aligning headers in a DateChooser control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 5, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can align the month name and year in a Flex DateChooser control by setting the textAlign and headerStyleName styles.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Using embedded fonts with the Accordion container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can use an embedded font with the Flex Accordion container by setting the headerStyleName style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Setting font weight on a Flex DateChooser control

By Peter deHaan On December 26, 2007 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the fontWeight style on a Flex DateChooser control to change whether each day in the calendar appears as normal or bold font.

Full code after the jump.

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Customizing the Flex DateChooser control

By Peter deHaan On December 21, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the DateChooser control in Flex by using an embedded font, customizing the header styles, week day names, week day name styles, and colors by setting various styles and properties.

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