Hi, I am developing a modular Flex 4 (or more precisely AIR1.5, if that makes difference) application and encountered rather ugly problem. In the main App I have a style.css, which defines all the styles for, let's say, spark Buttons. It looks more or less like this: s|Button, .moduleButton{ font-family: "Fonter"; skin-class: Clas...
Guys, I've this tabs that I wanted to make rounded only on top-right and top-left corners. But it ended up rounding all 4 corners. What I did: <mx:TabNavigator id="myTabNav" x="58" y="61" width="584" height="200" creationComplete="setColors(event)" styleName="myTabStyle"> <pages:One label="ThisOne" id="one" name="One"/> <pages:...
I'm learning skinning techniques for flex 4 and spark. For an example I've created custom component derived from SkinnableContainer. It is simple container with surrounding frame and a title. Everything works just fine when I run test project with a component on it. But at design time my components border is not visible, so developer us...
How do I make custom buttons for my app window on OSX? I'd also like to skin the entire window. Are there any easy classes or ways to do this? Any tutorials that show how? ...
Hi, The application I'm working on needs to have a slider to allow the user to select a Date. However, the Spark hSlider component does not have a 'labels' field like the halo hSlider does - into which you could put a collection of labels to be displayed along the track of the slider to denote the values selectable from the slider. I ...
Hi, I'm trying to create a MXML component based on the spark Panel and I would like to add an image on the right end of the title bar, so that the panel will have a text on the title bar and a small image at the right end. I'm using a skin to define the colors, background fill etc. But how do I add this image at the right end of the tit...
There are lots of examples of how to create skinnable components in AS3 using the new Spark component architecture, however I've yet to find any such examples using MXML. What I'm mainly referring to is defining the skin parts and skin states. It seems as though the SkinPart metadata is supposed to be associated with properties and as s...
I am trying to style a WPF ComboBox so that it matches a black-theme that is being considered for our next project. My problem is that if the ComboBox's background is black, the button doesn't show up (since it is also black). For some reason I have not been able to find any information about how to change it's colour. The following X...
Hello i'm importing a video in flash cs5, using actionscript 3.0. I have copy the SkinOverPlay.fla and i'm changing it to fit my needs. I am looking for just a play/pause button (no other controls) in the center of the screen that disapear when the mouse it out of the video. I am looking also on how to play the video in loop. thanks! ...
I am skinning a site with an ad, and I want to make the entire ad clickable. The ad takes up the entire background (body) as shown below body { background-attachment:scroll; background-color:#000000; background-image:url("http://gunshyassassin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/gunshy_takeover2OUTNOW4.jpg"); background-position:center top; ...
Hi, I am using DotnetNuke 5.4 Community and I have met with a specific requirement. I need to make it possible a configurable footer area (i.e a DNN admin should be able to manage the content & image to be displayed in footer area) on a portal basis. As now I can change the header logo on portal basis, the same functionality need to b...
How do I create an animated theme for windows XP? I know how to create normal themes, but can't seem to find anythoing on adding animation. This is what I need: The Start menu should be themed like an iPhone, so I slide to lock/unlock the start menu. Any ideas? ...