Flex Komponenten die man kennen sollte….

Eine der bekanntesten Flex Komponenten Bibliotheken ist sicherlich die FlexLib. Hier finden sich eine Menge Komponente, die man eigentlich immer wieder braucht:

Base64Image

An image component that renders base-64 encoded images.

CanvasButton

The CanvasButton is an extension of Button that lets you set the contents of the Button to any UI components, as opposed to only a single icon and label like the normal Button control allows.

CanvasButtonAccordionHeader

The CanvasButtonAccordionHeader allows you to use a CanvasButton component as the header renderer of an Accordion, meaning you have full control over the header renderer and can add additional UI control, etc.

ConvertibleTreeList

A control that combines the functionality of the Tree component and the List component. The ConvertibleTreeList allows you to use one control and have it display the dataProvider either as a Tree or as a List. You only have to set the dataProvider once. You can set the mode at any time to change the display mode.

Fire

A component to produce a simulated fire effect.

Highlighter

A component to highlight selected words or phrases within a text control

HSlider and VSlider

Alternatives to the HSlider and VSlider controls included in the Flex framework. This version of the HSlider and VSlider allows you to drag the region between the thumbs, if the slider has mutliple thumbs. If there is more than one thumb then the region between the leftmost thumb and the rightmost thumb is draggable.

IconLoader

The IconLoader component converts a Macintosh OS X (.icns) or Windows XP (.ico) icon file, along with its alpha mask, to a Flex 2 UIComponent.

ImageMap

The ImageMap control is an implementation of a client-side image map component, like it is supported in HTML.

PromptingTextInput

The PromptingTextInput component is a small enhancement to standard TextInput. It adds the ability to specify a prompt value that displays when the text is empty, similar to how the prompt property of the ComboBox behaves when there is no selected value.

PromptingTextArea

The PromptingTextArea component is a small enhancement to standard TextArea. It adds the ability to specify a prompt value that displays when the text is empty, similar to how the prompt property of the ComboBox behaves when there is no selected value.

ScrollableArrowMenu

An extension of ScrollableMenu that uses two arrow buttons placed at the top and bottom of the menu for scrolling.

ScrollableMenu

An extension of mx.controls.Menu that allows the control to scroll vertically.

ScrollableMenuBar

ScrollableMenuBar is an extension of MenuBar that uses flexlib.controls.ScrollableMenu instead of using the original mx.controls.Menu. This allows us to specify a maxHeight for the ScrollableMenuBar and that maxHeight will be used to determine the maxHeight for all the menus that the component generates.

ScrollablePopUpMenuButton

ScrollablePopUpMenuButton is an extension of PopUpMenuButton that uses flexlib.controls.ScrollableMenu instead of using the original mx.controls.Menu, which adds scrolling functionality to the menu.

SuperTabBar

The SuperTabBar control extends the TabBar control and adds drag and drop functionality and closable tabs. Used by the SuperTabNavigator.

TreeGrid

A control that combines the functionality of the Tree component and the DataGrid component.

VerticalMenuBar

A VerticalMenuBar control defines a vertical, top-level menu bar that contains one or menu items, just like the horizontal MenuBar control.

ButtonScrollingCanvas

This is a Container component that uses buttons placed over the edges of the container to do the scrolling of its children. These buttons can either scroll the children when the user moves the mouse over them, or via mouse click. The buttons can be fully skinned.

Docking ToolBar

The docking toolbar component collectively helps managing toolbars in an application. The toolbars can be docked to the top or bottom edges or kept floating within application area. The contents within a toolbar use a flow based layout approach.

DragScrollingCanvas

This is a Container component that allows the user to drag the contents to scroll the children, instead of or in addition to using the scrollbars.

HAccordion

A Horizontal Accordion component. Works exactly like the normal Accordion component, except the item headers are rotated and they cascade from left to right, instead of top to bottom.

FlowBox

The FlowBox is an extension of Box that implements a FlowLayout algorithm for layout out children. FlowBox will position children in a horizontal fashion. When the width of the child exceeds the width of the container, the child is placed on a new row.
SuperTabNavigator

The SuperTabNavigator is an extension of the TabNavigator navigation container. It functions exactly like the TabNavigator, but adds some functionality. Added functionality includes: 1. Draggable, re-orderable tabs, 2. Closable tabs, 3. Scrolling tab bar if too many tabs are open, 4. Drop-down list of tabs

WindowShade

The WindowShade is a container that displays a header button, which when clicked, will cause a panel to „unroll“ beneath it like a windowshade being pulled down; or if the panel is already displayed it will be „rolled up“ like a windowshade being rolled up.

HorizontalAxisDataSelector

The HorizontalAxisDataSelector is a chart annotation that allows the user to select a value along the x axis of the chart. The selector dispatches a change event with the values of each of the y values of the chart series at the given x axis location.

EnhancedButtonSkin

This is the enhanced version of the Halo ButtonSkin that has been customized to support four numeric values in the corner, a more configurable border, and also a large number of colors in the gradient, individually specified for up, over, etc states.