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• ActionScript, Components, Events, MXML, Skin

  MatrixGrid Component - Extending The DataGrid

  30.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  MatrixGrid is a complex component I made that displays a bi-dimensional array and gives the possibility to change its values using combo boxes. These are the changes you can do:

  change one single item

  change one row at once
  change one column at once

  The MatrixGrid component receives for objects:

  array with the possible values in each combo box
  the […]

  Popularity: 69%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  Continuing Image With Border

  12.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 67%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  How To Make an Image With Border

  10.06.08 | Permalink | 3 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 […]

  Popularity: 64%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML, css

  ImageRail - Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 3 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 […]

  Popularity: 81%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag

  30.05.08 | Permalink | 2 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 […]

  Popularity: 56%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  Image Gallery Component - ImageRail

  29.05.08 | Permalink | 5 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 […]

  Popularity: 89%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, MXML

  Add CSS style to a component

  30.10.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This it’s a clean example about how to add a CSS style to a component in Flex.
  We need to create the CSS file (style.css) and add a custom style:

  .myStyle {
  font-size: 20px;
  color: #cc0000;
  }

  Make a new Flex project and in the defalul MXML aplication file add this code:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
  layout="absolute" >
   
  <!–// Here we call our […]

  Popularity: 36%

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