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ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
Continuing Image With Border
Andrei Ionescu | 12.06.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

In the last article I explained how to create an image surrounded by border. That article is a start for fixing the issue: “image doesn’t have border style”.
Now I extended even more the new ImageBorder component to be able to center it horizontally and vertically and still be well displayed.
Modifications were made in updateDisplayList method [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
How To Make an Image With Border
Andrei Ionescu | 10.06.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

How to put border around an image? How to do that when you set only maxWidth and maxHeight? This is not an easy task. Googleing about my issue I found this, on Adobe’s LiveDocs (you must go at the end where comments are): a couple of helpful comments where Justin.Buser is, literally, drawing a rectangle [...]
ActionScript, CSS, Components, How to, MXML
ImageRail – Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor
Andrei Ionescu | 05.06.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Some time ago, in a previous article I presented you ImageRail component that displays some thumbnails with possibility to scroll to left or right. Now we will add some new features that were missing.

Click Event – imageClick
Styles – imageBackgroundAlpha
HandCursor

Click event will be triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag
Andrei Ionescu | 30.05.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Using events is fun in MXML components is fun and easily you can specify events using Event meta tag inside the component like this:
<mx:Metadata>
[Event(name="myevent", type="com.MyEvent")]
</mx:Metadata>
The following lines defines the myevent attribute of the component like this:

<com:FramedImage x="10" y="10" myevent="handleMyEvent(event)" … />

FramedImage component is a custom component which displays a framed image.
For [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
Image Gallery Component – ImageRail
Andrei Ionescu | 29.05.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

In this article I’ll present a new component I built: ImageRail. This MXML component will display a series of thumbnails having the possibility to scroll them horizontally.
Parameters:

paths: an array containing URLs to images
images: an array containing image objects
imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time – deafult is [...]

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