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How to add OSX / minimalist scrollbars

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Judah

If you use a Mac and OSX Lion you’ll notice the scroll bars have changed to a simple line or track similar to what Flash sites have been using. You can get the same look and feel in your Flex … Continue reading →

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How to declare a component or skin inline

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Judah

I’ve wanted to know how to do this for a while and I couldn’t get it to work until now. Here’s how how to set the skin class to the skin declared in the declarations. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:SkinnableContainer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" … Continue reading →

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Understanding FXG with a vector based button example

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Judah

This post will show the FXG code generated from Illustrator of creating a button with vector based artwork from start to finish. For this post we’ll be creating a circular button with a transparent gradient on top. You will see … Continue reading →

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Creating a recessed line in MXML

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Judah

I’ve been trying to get a recessed line type of look with MXML and since it took a while I’m posting it here. It can be improved so please post any updates. <s:Line width="100%" top="98" left="10" right="10"> <s:stroke> <s:SolidColorStroke color="#555555" … Continue reading →

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Tips on using the TileLayout in Flex 4.6

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Judah

Tips on using TileLayout in Flex 4.6. I had some difficulty in getting a tile layout to dynamically expand or contract the layout items. This post shows how I solved it. To get the items in a TileLayout to expand … Continue reading →

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