The following example shows how you can assign an HTML formatted string to a Panel container’s status text field using the getStatusTextField() method in the mx_internal namespace.
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In a previous example, “Setting the border alpha on a Panel container in Flex”, we saw how you could change a panel’s border alpha by setting the borderAlpha style.
The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Flex Panel container by setting the backgroundAlpha style.
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The following example shows how you can set the border alpha on a Flex Panel container by setting the borderAlpha style.
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The following example shows how you can indent the title of a Panel control in Flex by setting the titleStyleName style and textIndent style.
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The following example shows how you can set a Panel container’s layout to horizontal or vertical in Flex by setting the layout property.
You can also set the Panel container’s layout to “absolute”. For an example, see “Setting the border thickness in a Flex Panel container”.
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The following example shows how you can set the border thickness of each edge (left, right, top, and bottom) separately on a Panel container in Flex by setting the borderThicknessLeft, borderThicknessRight, borderThicknessTop, and borderThicknessBottom styles.
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The following example shows you how you can change the header height on a Panel container in Flex by setting the headerHeight style.
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The following example uses a resizeEffect effect along with a Resize tween effect (<mx:Resize />) to create a smooth tween effect whenever the panel is resized.
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The following example shows you how you can trigger effects when the visible property changes on a Flex container or control by using the hideEffect and showEffect effects.
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The following example shows how you can set custom status messages in a Flex Panel container by setting the aptly named status property.
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Another quick sample (I’m cleaning out my Flex projects from the past year). This time we look at controlling a Panel container’s roundness versus squareness by setting the cornerRadius style.
Just drag the slider to control the corner radius of the two panels (one with a ControlBar and one without).
Full code after the jump.
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