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Actionscript dispatching custom events from a custom component

Sameera Thilakasiri — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:09:05 +0000

The following example shows how you can declare custom events in an MXML or ActionScript component in Flex 4 by specifying the [Event] metadata.

Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component

Sameera Thilakasiri — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:47:35 +0000

The DataGrid component lets you easily filter data based on user input and present both the data and the data grid with your custom formatting. This article shows you how to do the following tasks with data grids:

Determining a DataGridColumn object’s current sort order – callLater()

Sameera Thilakasiri — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:13:05 +0000

The callLater() method queues an operation to be performed for the next screen refresh, rather than in the current update. Without the callLater() method, you might try to access a property of a component that is not yet available. The callLater() method is most commonly used with the creationComplete event to ensure that a component has finished being created before Flex proceeds with a specified method call on that component.

Fade effect in Flex – fadeIn fadeOut

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:20:08 +0000

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application     xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical"
    backgroundGradientAlphas="[1.0, 1.0]" backgroundGradientColors="[#FFFFFF,     #0C3404]" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">

<mx:Style>
               @font-face {
            src:   local("Arial");
            fontFamily:   ArialEmbedded;
           }

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            fontFamily: ArialEmbedded;
            color : #ffffff;
            fontSize : 16pt;
             }
</mx:Style>

<mx:Script>
      <![CDATA[
        private function showCaption():void{
            fadeIn.play([caption]);
        }
        private function hideCaption():void{
                  fadeOut.play([caption]);
            }
    ]]>
</mx:Script>
    <mx:Canvas rollOver="showCaption()" rollOut="hideCaption()"     >
        <mx:Image id="img" how do i buy viagra online | buy cialis canadian | cheap levitra generic  source="1.jpg"   width="320"   height="240" />
        <mx:Box id="caption"   height="30"   width="320"
            alpha="0" backgroundColor="#000000"     backgroundAlpha=".5"
              bottom="10"   horizontalCenter="0" horizontalAlign="center">
                <mx:Label text="Cheetah beauty @ Cologne   zoo" styleName="captionText" />
        </mx:Box>
    </mx:Canvas>
      <mx:Label text="(Rollover the image to see the caption)"
            color="#000000" fontStyle="italic"   fontSize="10" fontFamily="Arial"/>

    <mx:Fade id="fadeIn" alphaFrom="0.0"   alphaTo="1.0" />
      <mx:Fade id="fadeOut"   alphaFrom="1.0" alphaTo="0.0" />
</mx:Application>

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Create custom tooltip – toolTipCreate

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:16:52 +0000

CustomToolTip.mxml

Build a Drag-and-Drop XML Image Viewer – DragManager

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:08:02 +0000

All of the informations about the images showcased in the gallery are stored in an XML file. Create an xml file that follows this structure and save it as datas.xml in the src directory :

How to add system Fonts in your application – Font.enumerateFonts()

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:49:08 +0000

How to add system Fonts in your application

Changing live dragging on a TileList control in Flex

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:45:46 +0000

Changing live dragging on a TileList control in Flex

Flex Drag and Drop Custom Class Source Code Example – mx.managers.DragManager

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:42:04 +0000

Flex Drag and Drop Custom Class Source Code Example:

Create Google Maps Flex application using Google Maps API

Sameera Thilakasiri — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:36:51 +0000

Google maps is a powerful tool that provides a huge range of mapping services like street directories, directions, searches, satellite views and more. All of this power is made available to Flex developers through a Flash/Flex API supplied and supported by Google. This tutorial will show you how to embed a Google Map into a Flex application.