Changing the label placement on an MX TabBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2010 · 4 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing the label placement on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex (redux)”, we saw how you could set the label/icon placement on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex by extending the MX ButtonBar class and setting the navItemFactory property in the mx_internal namespace to a custom class.

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Changing the label placement on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex (redux)

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Changing the label placement for a Flex ButtonBar control”, we saw how you could change the button’s label placement relative to its icon in a ButtonBar control in Flex by using the getChildAt() method and labelPlacement property.

The following example shows how you can set the label/icon placement on an [...]

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Setting a label field on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the label field on the Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the labelField property.

 

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Displaying icons in a Flex PopUpButton control (Redux)

By Peter deHaan On January 20, 2009 · 8 Comments

In a previous example, “Displaying icons in a Flex PopUpButton control”, we saw how you could add icons to a PopUpButton control’s nested menu using an Array data provider.

The following example shows you how you can add icons to a pop up menu in a PopUpButton control in Flex by specifying the iconField [...]

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Setting a custom tool tip field on a ButtonBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 27, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can specify a custom field to be used for a tool tip in a Flex ButtonBar control by setting the toolTipField property.

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Setting a custom icon field in a Flex Tree control

By Peter deHaan On November 15, 2007 · 8 Comments

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.

Full code after the jump.

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Exploding wedges in a Flex PieChart control based on user input

By Peter deHaan On November 10, 2007 · 4 Comments

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”.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a custom ComboBox item renderer in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 25, 2007 · 25 Comments

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.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Specifying a custom label field on a Flex ComboBox control

By Peter deHaan On September 25, 2007 · 15 Comments

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 [...]

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Displaying icons in a Flex List control

By Peter deHaan On August 17, 2007 · 11 Comments

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 [...]

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Using the ColorPicker control’s colorField and labelField properties

By Peter deHaan On July 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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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