It’s hard to find good resources or techniques for Flex Hacks, I will start from today a category on this blog for flex hacks, the first one is about the adding background gradient way in VBox and HBox which I guess why still doesn’t is by default.
Level of Hack: Easy
To: All Flex devs
Description:
I want to put a gradient color on my vbox container and hbox either, but is not allowed, with this hack you can, just simple as possible.
How:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:ns1="office.menu.*"> <mx:Style> .testeGradiente{ fillColors: #444444, #ffffff; fillAlphas: 0.1,1; } </mx:Style> <mx:VBox styleName="testeGradiente" borderStyle="applicationControlBar" x="101" y="46" width="174" height="170"> </mx:VBox> </mx:Application> |
Explanation:
Since the components are shared the same classes or aka (inheritance ), you can take a hole possible new hacks on that and use same as applied for others containers.
The property I used to enable this was the borderStyle which I applied the same name as in the component applicationControlBar.
That’s all folks. Next hack to come.
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Good idea. What’s missing now is a visual example of what you’ve done (as this is done at blog.flexexamples.com).
I hope that this series will be as informative as the one at flexexamples.com, perhaps leaving more the documented paths of Flex, i.e. hacks ;-)
Cheers
valley
Hey, it’s cool. Thanx for the hack. I like hackers since I am no different. I modified the tech as necessary and applied in many places … Flex needs lots of hackers going ahead, I guess.
awesome dude!! keep it up