The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex Button control’s label changes using the labelChanged event.
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Tag Archive for 'label'
The following example shows how you can access the Label subcomponent in a Flex FormItem container and do fancy stuff like have form labels with hyperlinks or selectable text by using the itemLabel property.
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The following example shows you how you can truncate a DataGrid column’s text and display a tool tip by setting a custom header renderer.
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The following example shows how you can truncate the label on a CheckBox control in Flex by setting the width property.
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The following example shows you how you create a custom Label control in Flex that masks its text as a password by setting the Label control’s nested protected UITextField control’s displayAsPassword property.
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The following example shows how you can use the truncateToFit property in the Label control in Flex to truncate strings if they exceed a specified width. The label control will terminate the string with “…” and allow you to roll over the text and read the entire (non-truncated) text in a tool tip, as seen in the following snippet:
<mx:Label text="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
truncateToFit="true"
maxWidth="200" />
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The following example shows how you can use the link event with the Label control in Flex to handle hyperlinks embedded within a string of text. By using the “event:” prefix in the href property of an anchor (<a />) tag, you can handle links within your Flex application, use the ExternalInterface API to call JavaScript from Flex, or do pretty much whatever else you want.
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The following example shows how you can use a Label control as an item renderer in a Flex ComboBox control so that items which exceed the combo box dropdown menu’s width are truncated with a nice “…”.
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Probably not too surprising to anybody, but you can easily control the location of an icon within a Button control by setting the button’s labelPlacement property.
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