Creating a custom label function on a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On January 25, 2010 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Creating a custom label function on a Flex ButtonBar control”, we saw how you could use a custom label function to create button labels on an MX ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the labelFunction property.

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

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

In a previous example, “Setting a label field on a Spark List control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the label field on the Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the labelField property.

The following example shows how you can set a custom label function on a Spark List [...]

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Setting a DataGrid control’s data provider to an XML object in Flex

By Peter deHaan On November 5, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an XML object as a data provider for a Flex DataGrid control and use a custom label function to display the XML node’s name.

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Setting a label function on a LinkBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a label function on a Flex LinkBar control to change each link’s label to uppercase by setting the labelFunction property.

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Setting a custom label function on a PieChart in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 26, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a custom label function on a Flex PieChart control by setting the labelFunction property on the PieSeries object.

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Creating a custom label function on a Flex PopUpMenuButton control

By Peter deHaan On February 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can use an XML data provider on a PopUpMenuButton in Flex and create a custom label function using the labelFunction property.

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Displaying the labels vertically in Flex ColumnChart control

By Peter deHaan On January 23, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can display the labels in a ColumnSeries either vertically or horizontally in a ColumnChart control in Flex by setting the Boolean showLabelVertically property.

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Displaying the number of children in each branch of a Flex Tree control

By Peter deHaan On January 11, 2008 · 16 Comments

The following example shows how you can display the number of children in each branch of a Tree control in Flex by using the dataDescriptor property, labelFunction property, hasChildren() method and getChildren() method.

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Creating a custom label function on a Flex ButtonBar control

By Peter deHaan On January 9, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a custom label function to create button labels on a ButtonBar control in Flex by setting the labelFunction property.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting a custom label function on a Flex DateField control

By Peter deHaan On December 12, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can format the displayed date in a DateField control by setting the labelFunction property and creating a custom label function.

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Using an Array as a data provider in a Flex Tree control

By Peter deHaan On December 3, 2007 · 7 Comments

The following code shows you how you can use an Array as a data provider for a Tree control in Flex.

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Using the isBranch() method to determine if a Tree item is a branch or leaf

By Peter deHaan On November 30, 2007 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the isBranch() method to determine if a specific node in a Tree control is a branch (folder) or leaf (item).

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