Tag Archive for custom component

Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states

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The new Flex 4 skinning architecture makes it easier for developers to completely change the look and feel of an application, while providing better separation between components and their skins. In this blogpost, by using FXG and the new states syntax, we’ll write a basic MXML skin that reflects it’s hostcomponent states. For those of [...]

A custom formatted component called CurrencyInput

You know, the Flex SDK is a pretty nice collection of visual component for quickly creating a rich internet application. But in the past couple of years that I’ve developed in Flex, I came across the usual issues with a framework, namely: it does a lot; it does a lot good; but it is just [...]