Over the weekend, we uploaded new builds of our Mobile Flex Component Set. You can read our from our release notes, but here are the important highlights: We added two new skins for our Mobile DropDownList. These treat the drop… Read More

Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can… Read More

Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can… Read More

For a long time using Flex 3 I was always happy using mx:RadioButton along with mx:RadioButtonGroup. Some time back it dawned on me that I generally lay these buttons out in some formal layout, either horizontally, vertically or tiled, and… Read More

In this Quick Tip on the Flash Professional Components, we will be taking a look at the CheckBox and RadioButton Components. .seriesbox { background: #F8EBE6; border: 1px solid #E0AB99; margin: 20px 0; padding: 10px 20px 10px 30px; color:#575757; float: none;… Read More

In this Quick Tip, I will show you how to build a contact form using PHP and ActionScript 3. We’ll learn how to pass variables from Flash to PHP and alert the owner by sending either an email or an… Read More

The following example shows how you can create a custom RadioButton based skin on the Spark TabBar control in Flex 4 by setting the skinClass style. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/10/10/creating-a-custom-skin-on-the-spark-tabbar-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_TabBar_skinClass_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">   <s:VGroup horizontalAlign="center"… Read More

One of the easiest approaches to increase performance in Flash app is to remove any hidden objects from the Flash display list, and use the minimum amount of display objects. The code execution goes through the display list from the… Read More

Using the Flash drawing tools we’ll create a nice looking Radio Button that will make use of the Timeline and Mouse Events in ActionScript 3 to perform a user declared action. Final Result Preview Let’s take a look at the… Read More

The following example shows how you can use a Spark RadioButton control as an item renderer for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the itemRenderer property. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/05/20/creating-a-radio-button-item-renderer-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_List_itemRenderer_RadioButton_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" [...]… Read More

The following example shows how you can create a multiline Spark RadioButton control in Flex 4 by creating a custom RadioButton skin, setting the skinClass style, and removing the maxDisplayedLines property. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/04/10/creating-a-multiline-spark-radiobutton-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_CheckBox_skinClass_maxDisplayedLines_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"… Read More

The following example shows how you can set the symbol/bullet color on a Spark RadioButton control in Flex 4 by setting the symbolColor style. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/02/05/setting-the-symbol-color-on-a-spark-radiobutton-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_RadioButton_symbolColor_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> [...]… Read More

A new tutorial at flashandmath.com. Learn how to create a simple quiz supplied with content from an external XML data file. This particular quiz structure uses only RadioButton components, but the ideas are adaptable to other interfaces. Like all of… Read More