Changing the background color of a cell in a DataGrid is much easier, in my opinion, using the Spark architecture. The itemRenderer I am using is all mxml and uses the Rect graphic as the background. Here is the simple… Read More

//In this Quick Tip on the Flash Professional Components we will be taking a look at the ComboBox and the DataGrid. Brief Overview In the demo SWF you’ll see a ComboBox and a DataGrid. Choosing a state from the ComboBox… Read More

This question comes in from Johnny, one of the folks I met at 360Flex in San Jose: How can I apply a global styles for all my accordions and datagrids? Johnny sent me some code to, which I would have… Read More

Last week, I attended the Adobe EMEA Partners summit in Amsterdam. I presented a track named “Develop Enterprise Applications for Mobile users…“. As always, I developed a small prototype to express my ideas and showcase the power of Read More

If you’d like to download the file used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only. At some point, nearly every Flash application needs to access… Read More

We have introduced how to set background color for the headers of DataGrid in Flex, sometimes, we also need to get the row and column value in DataGrid, do you know how to do it? The following is a simple… Read More