Displaying an FXG file in a Spark BitmapImage control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can display an FXG file in a Spark BitmapImage control in Flex 4 by setting the source property using data binding or MXML.

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Using a bitmap image skin in a Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 24, 2010 · 16 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a series state-aware of bitmap images in a Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the BitmapImage source property to different images in the various button states.

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Playing a video from an RTMP server using the Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On December 14, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can load a recorded F4V video from an RTMP server in a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex 4 by setting the source property to a DynamicStreamingVideoSource object.

Full code after the jump.

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Using an XML data provider with the Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On November 4, 2009 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an XML document as a data provider for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by using an XMLListCollection.

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Setting a bitmap fill on a shape in Flex Gumbo

By Peter deHaan On December 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set a bitmap fill on an Flex Gumbo Ellipse object by setting the source property on the BitmapFill object.

Full code after the jump.

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Preventing an image from automatically loading in an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can prevent the Flex Image control to automatically loading an image when setting the Image control’s source property by setting the autoLoad property to false and then explicitly loading the image using the load() method.

Full code after the jump.

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Detecting when the source changes on an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 27, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when the source property has changed on a Flex Image control using the sourceChanged event.

Full code after the jump.

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Using a CheckBox to filter items in a DataGrid in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 12, 2008 · 21 Comments

The following example shows how you can filter items in a Flex DataGrid using a CheckBox control, and the ArrayCollection class’s filterFunction property.

Full code after the jump.

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

By Peter deHaan On August 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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