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Tag Archive for 'source'

Jun

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

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Categories: Image Tags: autoLoad, Image, load(), source.

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.

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Jun

Detecting when the source changes on an Image control in Flex

By peterd 4 Comments

Categories: Image Tags: Image, source, sourceChanged.

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

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Mar

Using a CheckBox to filter items in a DataGrid in Flex

By peterd 7 Comments

Categories: ArrayCollection and DataGrid Tags: ArrayCollection, DataGrid, filterFunction, length, refresh(), source.

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

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Aug

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

By peterd 3 Comments

Categories: ProgressBar and VideoDisplay Tags: conversion, labelPlacement, mode, source.

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 FLV has loaded (it monitors the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties of the UI object specified in the source parameter, which in this case is the VideoDisplay control). Finally I tweaked the label property to add the units (kilobytes) and set the conversion property to 1024 to convert from bytes to kilobytes. Whew!

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