Similar to skinning a combobox with an error state, there may be times where you need to show the error state for a checkbox without showing its error string.
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Skinning ComboBox with Error State
Since the ComboBox doesn’t come with an out-of-the-box error state / skin without using an error string, you can grab the sample code below to give your comboBox an error skin. The example implements the interface IValidatable which for the … Continued
Overriding Menu to include stage height bounds
I was working on a custom menu component uses Menu. Turns out that Menu doesnt inherintly understand the stage height of the application. What I ended up doing was creating CustomMenu which extends Menu and adds in height bounds for … Continued
Using tokens in resource bundles
A quick sample on how to pass in token values to a resource bundle string. When you need to replace a token value in your bundle, you will want to use the resourceManager or ResourceManager and pass in the value … Continued
Handling Keyboard Events
Im working on a project that required a Keyboard Manager to track shortcut keys within the Flex app, so i went ahead a wrote this quick little POC that I later incorporated into the project. I handle shortcut keys by … Continued
Flex Call Stack and callLater()
Ive used callLater() quite a few times before, but about a week ago a co-worker asked me if I knew exactly when callLater() was called. Well I think its 1 millisecond after the method executes, to which he re-asked if … Continued
Image Load I/O Error in Flex
On a project im working on I ran into a very strange error when trying to load in a simple .jpg image. The image wouldn’t load. Now this sounds like a very familiar issue and easily solvable right? That what … Continued
Enum toArray()
There have been plenty of times that Ive needed to reuse the values of my enums as an array. A good example of this would be an enumeration of US states. There are many ways of doing this, however I … Continued