Creating a custom track highlight skin on an MX HSlider control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 14, 2010 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a custom track highlight skin on an MX HSlider control in Flex 4 by setting the trackHighlightSkin style and the Boolean showTrackHighlight style.

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Removing the thumb from an MX HSlider control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On December 18, 2009 · 3 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing a slider control’s thumb skin”, we saw how you could specify a custom embedded image instead of the default HSlider/VSlider thumb skin by setting the thumbSkin style.

In the following example shows how you can remove the thumb altogether by setting the thumbSkin style to null.

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Customizing the track highlight skin on an MX HSlider control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On September 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can customize the track highlight skin on a Halo/MX HSlider control in Flex 4 by setting the showTrackHighlight and trackHighlightSkin styles.

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Customing the Flex HSlider and VSlider controls

By Peter deHaan On September 11, 2007 · 29 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize several properties and styles in the Flex HSlider control.

 

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Using overlapping slider thumbs in the Flex Slider controls

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 10 Comments

I was playing around with the HSlider component tonight and was checking out the allowThumbOverlap property. The following example creates a horizontal slider with 2 slider thumbs and lets you toggle the allowThumbOverlap property with the showTrackHighlight property set to true.

Full code after the jump.

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Highlighting a Slider control’s track using the showTrackHighlight style

By Peter deHaan On August 21, 2007 · 8 Comments

Well, the title of the post pretty much says it all, but I just noticed this today. It seems that you can highlight the HSlider/VSlider track by setting the showTrackHighlight style to true. I made this really quick mini-app which lets you toggle the style on and off, as well as see the behavior of [...]

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