The following examples show how you can control whether a user can select the text in a Flex TextArea control by setting the selectable property in MXML and ActionScript.
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The following example shows how you can prevent users from changing the value in a Flex ComboBox control by setting the dropdown menu’s selectable property.
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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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The following example shows how you can prevent a user from selecting items in a Flex DataGrid control by setting the selectable property.
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The following example shows how you can use the link event with the Label control in Flex to handle hyperlinks embedded within a string of text. By using the “event:” prefix in the href property of an anchor (<a />) tag, you can handle links within your Flex application, use the ExternalInterface API to call JavaScript from Flex, or do pretty much whatever else you want.
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