Setting a variable row height on an MX MenuBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On February 19, 2010 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a variable row height on an MX MenuBar control in Flex by listening for the menuShow event, setting the Boolean variableRowHeight property on the MenuEvent object’s menu property, and then calling the invalidateSize() method.

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Creating a variable row height Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On January 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Creating a variable row height item renderer on a ComboBox control in Flex”, we saw how you could create a variable row height item renderer on a Flex MX ComboBox control by setting the variableRowHeight property on the ComboBox control’s dropdown property.

The following example shows how you can create [...]

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Toggling variable row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle variable item/row heights on a Spark VGroup container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean variableRowHeight property.

Full code after the jump.

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Adding a horizontal separator to a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu (redux)

By Peter deHaan On October 2, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Adding a horizontal separator to a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu”, we saw how you could add a horizontal separator to a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu in Flex by setting the type attribute to “separator” in the menu’s data provider.

The following example shows how you can adjust [...]

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Creating a variable row height item renderer on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 4, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a variable row height item renderer on a Flex ComboBox control by setting the variableRowHeight property on the ComboBox control’s dropdown property.

Full code after the jump.

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Reducing the vertical space around a separator in a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu by enabling variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can reduce the amount of whitespace around a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu by setting the variableRowHeight property on the menu in Flex.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating a Flex Tree control with variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On November 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can create a Tree control in Flex with variable row heights by setting the variableRowHeight and wordWrap properties.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating multi-line list rows with variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On October 27, 2007 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can create multi-line rows with wrapping text and variable row heights with the Flex List control.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Using a Flex TextArea control as a drop-in item editor

By Peter deHaan On September 30, 2007 · 19 Comments

User “Fred” asked a question the other day about using the TextArea as an item editor in an editable, variable line height DataGrid control.

The following example shows how you can use the Flex TextArea control as a drop-in item editor to allow you to easily edit the items in a DataGrid control.

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