The following example shows how you can specify a custom icon field in a Flex Tree control to set an icon on a specific node.
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The following example shows how you can explode individual wedges in a PieChart when the user changes the value of a Slider control, or rolls over an item in a List control. For other examples of PieChart wedge exploding, check out “Exploding wedges in a Flex PieChart control”.
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The following example shows how you can create a simple ComboBox item renderer which displays multiline items in the ComboBox control’s drop down menu.
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The following example shows how you can specify a custom label field for a ComboBox control by using the ComboBox class’s labelField property.
The labelField property controls which field in the data provider will be used as the ComboBox item’s label. By default, the labelField property is “label”, although if you are using an XML data provider, you may want to change the labelField property to “@label”, or some other value.
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The following example demonstrates how to use embedded images in a List control so that each item in the list displays a little icon based on a certain property in the data provider. You’ll also notice that we set the textIndent style to give the label a bit more padding from the icon. Finally, we create three non-interactive Button controls beneath the list as a sort of “legend” for the icons.
Full code after the jump.
In a previous post, “Formatting colors as strings with ActionScript“, A reader asked about the ColorPicker component. So here’s a quick little example of creating a ColorPicker control, as well as setting the labelField and colorField properties to display color names in the ColorPicker control.
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