I’ve decided since I attempt to help people in #flex (on EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet) on a daily basis, that I’ll pick one simple question and try to whip up an example for everyone to see.
Today, someone asked how to scale all children of a container. The basic answer is to just loop over all the children, and set their scaleX and scaleY properties.
I’ve started a series of posts on the Webapper blog called Shan’s Simple Examples. I’ll cover Flex and ColdFusion examples as I help others in the IRC channels #flex (EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet).
Hopefully this will turn into a nice library of quick HOW-TOs for us developers.
See a list of blog postings.
View the list of examples.
The first two entries are Flex Not-So Custom Preloader and Scale all children in Flex.
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Today I got a request to change the “Loading” text in the preloader of a Flex app. To my surprise, I didn’t see any examples on how to do this, so I thought I’d share my results.
When you like the existing preloader, but want to just make little tiny changes to it, here’s what you do. You’ll first need to go ahead and create a custom preloader class that extends DownloadProgressBar (the default preloader). In this new class, you’ll see the spot where you can just make tweaks to the preloader’s values:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | package org.iotashan.components { import mx.preloaders.DownloadProgressBar; public class CustomPreloader extends DownloadProgressBar { public function CustomPreloader() { super(); // set your properties here this.downloadingLabel = "Getting the hampster to run on the wheel"; } } } |
Once you’ve created this custom preloader, you just have to assign it to your application:
1 | <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" preloader="org.iotashan.components.CustomPreloader"> |
That’s it. Check out the live example here.
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