Chapter 5. HANDY NEW CONTROL TYPES

HANDY NEW CONTROL TYPES

Updated 7/6/08

New types of controls

The Flex framework provides a nice set of the standard controls: buttons, scrollbars, combo boxes, lists, data grids, and more. But there is some room for extra controls, and that's made up by the bevy of new controls I'll show you in this chapter. These controls work just as well as those in the original framework and make up for a lot of the gaps in the original control set.

Canvas buttons

The first control we will look at is the CanvasButton available in the framework. This control, contained in the FlexLib (http://flexlib.googlecode.com) library, is built on the button class. ...

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