The SkinnableViewStack is nearly identical to my ViewStack component except that it extends SkinnableContainer, rather than my DeferredContentGroup, to support skins. My use-case for a skinnable version of the ViewStack is when defining views or components that need to have… Read More

Awhile back, I created a GroupStack as a quick and dirty Spark implementation of the ViewStack I needed at the time.… Read More

Whereas Flex 3 included built-in support for deferred content creation in all of the Halo containers, Flex 4 only offers this feature with the SkinnableContainer Spark container. With the DeferredContentGroup, you can utilize deferred instantiation in the lighter-weight Spark Group… Read More

I think there is one question that has come up hundreds of times on Stack Overflow. The question is "How does one Flex Component call a method in another Flex Component?" or some variation thereof. Sometimes people want to access… Read More

I think there is one question that has come up hundreds of times on Stack Overflow. The question is "How does one Flex Component call a method in another Flex Component?" or some variation thereof. Sometimes people want to access… Read More

One of the components missing from the Spark component set is the ViewStack. Generally, I have not missed this component when creating Flex 4 applications because I tend to favor using skin states where I would have normally used a… Read More

Well I came to know about this property for containers very recently. So thought  of sharing with you.   <mx:ViewStack creationPolicy=”{ContainerCreationPolicy.ALL}”> with creation policy set to this ContainerCreationPolicy.ALL all the child elements in viewstack gets loaded at the same time… Read More

In this post I want to explain how the slide effect can be applied to the application views. My goal is to do it in a declarative way as much as possible and to use default Flex components. I will… Read More

One of the most basic ways to improve the feel of a Flex application, is to add transitions and effects when a change in the viewstack occurs.  Here is an example of the code using the “showEffect” and “hideEffect” property… Read More

Tinkering around with the new scrolling method s:Scroller in Flex 4.  I like it much more than Flex 3.  Less overhead and more control of scroll bars.  Still the overall frustrations with scroll bars and where they should appear still… Read More

//Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in May, 2009.… Now and again you may be asked to work on a project which requires Read More

If you've done any development using Flex "Hero" for mobile (i.e. Android), you already know that you can pass any arbitrary struture of data when you push or pop a View to the ViewStack. I talk a little bit about… Read More

Within the world of mobile Flex development there is a concept of a ViewStack and navigator for handling navigating between views. It's a new concept in Flex but a relatively simple one to understand. Essentially you push a new View… 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

I ran into an interesting issue with a Flex app today as I couldn't constrain the contents of a viewstack properly. I ultimately wanted a scrollbar to appear if it's contents were larger than what the parent would allow. To… Read More

In Flex 4 there isn’t an alternative for the Flex 3 ViewStack navigation container, which we can use for browser history integration. Luckily, Flex 3 components should work in Flex 4, but there are two issues with the ViewStack container.… Read More

Line Break Author: Roelof (8 Articles) - Author Website Roelof is a SAP Consultant specialized in Front-End development. In his spare free time he is either developing on the web, playing basketball, watching soccer, travelling or just being lazy. He… Read More