Displaying a Label control’s text as a password

By Peter deHaan On January 27, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how you create a custom Label control in Flex that masks its text as a password by setting the Label control’s nested protected UITextField control’s displayAsPassword property.

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Truncating text in the Flex Label control using the truncateToFit property

By Peter deHaan On January 26, 2008 · 22 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the truncateToFit property in the Label control in Flex to truncate strings if they exceed a specified width. The label control will terminate the string with “…” and allow you to roll over the text and read the entire (non-truncated) text in a tool tip, as seen [...]

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Displaying item tool tips in a Flex ComboBox control

By Peter deHaan On January 26, 2008 · 19 Comments

The following example shows how you can truncate long item labels in a ComboBox control by setting a custom item renderer. In this example we’re using the Label control we’re using the Label control and taking advantage of the Label control’s truncateToFit property which truncates the string with an “…” and displays a tool tip [...]

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