A common use for a List is the master/detail UI pattern. When the user clicks on an item, it expands, revealing more detail about the item. Previously we’ve shown an example of a List with expanding item renderer. This post demonstrates a similar idea except will scroll items into view as they expand.
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In Flex 4.5, we introduced the Spark version of DataGrid, which provides a vastly improved skinning experience. Unfortunately, a more flexible skin also means less tweaking through styles. One example is the DataGrid’s header’s label. By default, the “fontWeight” style is hard-coded to bold, along with some other text styles. Luckily, we’ve provided a relatively simple way to customize this particular piece of the header. This post will show you how to customize the Spark DataGrid’s header’s label.
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In Flex 4.5, we introduced the Spark version of DataGrid, which provides a vastly improved skinning experience. Spark DataGrid has a multitude of skin parts that can be customized and tweaked through its skin. These include the row backgrounds, row separators, column separators, selection indicators, caret indicator, hover indicator, etc… (see DataGrid Documentation). This post demonstrates two methods for customizing the row and column separators.
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Evtim and I gave a presentation at 360Flex Denver this year about optimizing performance of item renderers and skins in Flex 4.5 applications.
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