Removing the selected highlight from the Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 (redux)

By Peter deHaan On September 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Removing the selected highlight from the Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4″, we saw how you can remove the selected highlight from the Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 by creating a custom ButtonBar and ButtonBarButton skin class.

The following example shows how you can remove the selected highlight from [...]

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Toggling a group of Spark CheckBox controls in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can easily toggle a group of Spark CheckBox controls in Flex 4 by putting them in a nested container and using the getElementAt() method to get the individual CheckBox controls and set their selected property.

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Determining when the selected state of a Spark ToggleButton control changes in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can determine when the Flex 4 Spark ToggleButton control is selected or deselected by listening for the change event and checking the Boolean selected property.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a toggle button in Flex using the FxToggleButton control

By Peter deHaan On October 13, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a toggle button in Flex Gumbo using the FxToggleButton control in the latest version (build 4.0.0.3584) of the beta Flex Gumbo SDK.
This example also shows the new Flex Gumbo syntax for two-way data binding:

inline: <FxToggleButton id="fxToggleButton" selected="@{fxCheckBox.selected}" /> MXML: <Binding source="fxCheckBox.selected" destination="fxToggleButton.selected" twoWay="true" /> [...]

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Creating a toggleable LinkButton control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 6, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a toggleable Flex LinkButton control by extending the mx.skins.halo.LinkButtonSkin and adding custom “selectedUpSkin”, “selectedOverSkin”, “selectedDownSkin”, and “selectedDisabledSkin” skin states.

Full code after the jump.

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Checking to see if a Flex CheckBox is selected before allowing a user to press a Button

By Peter deHaan On September 13, 2007 · 12 Comments

The following example shows a few different ways of checking to see if the user selected a CheckBox control before allowing them to click a Button control. Got other tips? Leave them in the comments!

Full code after the jump.

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Creating toggle and emphasized Button controls in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 3 Comments

Pretty basic stuff, but if you’ve never used a toggle button in Flex or Flash, you may find this useful. The following example creates two Button controls. The first button sets the toggle property to true and determines whether the button is currently selected by watching the button’s selected property. The second button simply sets [...]

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