Comments on: Extending Flex Panel With ActionScript

By: Cleo Marlor

Cleo Marlor — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:24:41 +0000

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By: Murtuza

Murtuza — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:28:49 +0000

@Guido, I did see the focus (blue outline) go off a few pixels when working with the same code and switching focus using tab key. Not sure why this happens

By: dougr

dougr — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:49:07 +0000

@Shawn, sorry I missed your question and haven’t replied until now…
I would just use CSS to manage the title style. For example:
NewFormPanel {
titleStyleName: “mypanelTitle”;
}

.mypanelTitle {
fontSize: 18;
}

@Guido, I didn’t experience any issue with the focus highlight when using button. If you are simply wanting to display in this case, maybe a text component or label component might be more appropriate??

By: guido

guido — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:41:54 +0000

Hi Doug,

used your code to extend the panel with a text area (i want to display a certain revision number in the panel) but when the focus is on the text area component, the – blue – outline is a few pixels off. Don’t know if this happend to the button as well ?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:41:27 +0000

Thanks for the great post. I have a related question. I am trying to set the size of the Panel Title text. I am trying to do that using the titleStyleName and some how set the fontsize in there. But I can not get to the titleStyleName in my custom component which extends panel. I am trying to change the text when updateDisplayList() over ride.

I would appreciate any direction on this.

By: Sergey Ivanchenkov

Sergey Ivanchenkov — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:28:00 +0000

Not bad at all. Good time saver before all other customization is done. Thnx, buddy.

By: John Gag

John Gag — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:29:18 +0000

Cool little example. Thanks

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:58:51 +0000

Hi Doug…

I liked your code, helped me learn a lot but for some reason when i try to put an item inside the Panel it goes to x=y=0 no matter what…

:(:(

Best

By: dougr

dougr — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:38:28 +0000

Robert, the first place to go is http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/ and peruse through the documentation. Once you download and install FlexBuilder 3 then you can work through the included sample projects and Adobe will send you more code examples during your trial. Jeffry Houser just posted about setting up a flex project on The Flex Show site: http://tinyurl.com/3l4ge2. Definitely check out your local user’s group scene http://flex.org/community/ There are a ton of resources out there and if you like to have a book in your hands there are plenty for the taking.

By: Robert Owen

Robert Owen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:37:19 +0000

Hi Doug, very interesting read. I don’t have any experience with flex myself. What resource do you suggest for a noob wanting to learn?