Modifying the corner white box on an MX Container when scroll bars are visible in Flex

By Peter deHaan On May 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can modify the visibility and alpha of the white box in the lower-right corner of an MX Container in Flex when both the horizontal and vertical scroll bars are visible by using the rawChildren property and getChildByName() method.

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Creating a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On April 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a custom scroll bar track skin on an MX TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the trackSkin, verticalScrollBarStyleName, and horizontalScrollBarStyleName and styles.

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Setting a custom horizontal scroll bar skin on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On November 4, 2009 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can apply a custom horizontal scroll bar skin on the Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the skinClass style.

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Styling the horizontal and vertical scroll bars on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On November 4, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a base theme color on a Spark List control’s horizontal and vertical scroll bar by setting the chromeColor style.

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Toggling horizontal and vertical scroll bars on a Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can show or hide horizontal and vertical scroll bars on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the horizontalScrollPolicy and/or verticalScrollPolicy styles.

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Setting the vertical scrollbar policy on a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the vertical scrollbar policy on a Flex TextArea control by setting the verticalScrollPolicy property to one of the constants in the mx.core.ScrollPolicy class.

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Programmatically scrolling a TextArea control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can scroll a Flex TextArea control by setting the verticalScrollPosition and maxVerticalScrollPosition properties.

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Selecting multiple items in Flex List and DataGrid controls

By Peter deHaan On November 21, 2007 · 28 Comments

The following example shows how you can have multiple selected items in a List or DataGrid control at the same time. To select multiple items at once, hold down the Shift or Control keys on your keyboard while pressing the mouse button on a list item.

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Setting a Flex container’s vertical scroll policy

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can use the verticalScrollPolicy property on a Flex VBox container to control the appearance of the vertical scroll bar when the container’s contents exceed the dimensions of the container.

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