Tag Archive for 'labelplacement'

26
Jun

Detecting when the label placement changes on a Button control in Flex

In an earlier example, “Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property”, we saw how you can set a Flex Button control’s label placement using the labelPlacement property.

The following example shows how you can detect when the labelPlacement property has changed using the labelPlacementChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

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19
Jun

Setting the label placement on a RadioButtonGroup in Flex

The following example shows how you can set the label placement on a series of RadioButton controls in a Flex RadioButtonGroup by setting the labelPlacement property.

Full code after the jump.

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08
Jan

Changing the label placement for a Flex ButtonBar control

The following example shows how you can change the button’s label placement relative to its icon in a ButtonBar control in Flex by using the getChildAt() method and labelPlacement property.

Full code after the jump.

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18
Sep

Setting a Flex ProgressBar control’s text indent

The following example shows how you can control the amount of text indenting on a progress bar label.

Full code after the jump.

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10
Sep

Changing the track height of a Flex ProgressBar control

The following example shows how you can change the track height of a ProgressBar control in Flex.

Full code after the jump.

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26
Aug

Changing a Button control’s text alignment and label placement

The following example shows how you can use the Button class’s textAlign style and labelPlacement property to control the text layout in a Button control.

Full code after the jump.

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25
Aug

Changing a CheckBox control’s label placement

While probably not very useful to most, this is a quick post on changing the CheckBox control’s labelPlacement property to control where the text appears in relation to the check box.

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08
Aug

Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property

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.

Full code after the jump.

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07
Aug

Setting the ProgressBar control’s labelPlacement, mode, and conversion properties

Here was a neat trick I learnt today. You can set a ProgressBar control’s labelPlacement property to “center” and have it appear within the progress bar itseslf. Pretty handy!

And just because that alone wasn’t really an interesting entry, I created a second progress bar which uses “polled” mode to determine how much of an FLV has loaded (it monitors the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties of the UI object specified in the source parameter, which in this case is the VideoDisplay control). Finally I tweaked the label property to add the units (kilobytes) and set the conversion property to 1024 to convert from bytes to kilobytes. Whew!

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