List with truncation instead of a horizontal scroll bar
The default spark List will add a horizontal scroll bar when the contents of the List are wider than its width. This post shows how to change that behavior using a custom item renderer so that a...
View ArticleMemory Graph to track Flash Player total memory usage
Sometimes it’s nice to keep an eye on the memory of an application without involving the Flash Builder profiler. This post demonstrates a simple and lightweight component that graphs the value of the...
View ArticleLearn how to create a simple virtual layout in Flex 4
This post goes over the basics of writing a very simple custom layout that supports virtualization in spark. It assumes that you have already built a custom layout that handles the real (non-virtual)...
View ArticleMeasuring a GraphicElement with a Stroke in a Group
How Flex treats strokes on GraphicElements can be a little tricky. This post explains how the stroke of a GraphicElement contributes to the measured size of a spark Group. First consider a plain old...
View ArticleUsing non-embedded images in a spark BitmapImage
The spark BitmapImage component only supports embedded images in Flex 4.0. This post shows how you can get around that limitation by loading an image via a SWFLoader and then pushing that bitmap data...
View ArticleIntroducing Flex 4
Flex 4 has been released. This is a major release of Flex that introduces some new features that allow you an amazing amount of flexibility and power in building killer internet applications. There are...
View ArticleUsing a spark List to simulate a stacked bar chart
This is an example of a spark List with a custom item renderer that looks like a stacked bar chart. I was recently in a meeting where someone was presenting lots of information via pretty graphs and...
View ArticleSimple wave effect on items in a DataGroup
This post demonstrates one way of creating a simple wave effect on items in a DataGroup. A post on polyGeek.com reminded me of an old sample I had laying around that was kind of interesting. Try...
View ArticleChecking if an element is included in the current state in Flex 4
Checking if an element is included or excluded from the current state is a little more involved than just checking the visible property. This post demonstrates a method that returns true when the...
View ArticleScrolling to the bottom of a spark List
Scrolling to the bottom of a spark List after adding an item can be a little tricky especially when adding multiline text. This post demonstrates how to do it using a chat pod as a sample use case....
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