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Skinning The Spark Button Control with Flex 4

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In this article I will create a custom Spark Button control that will look something like this:

spark button control skin

You can find the working example lower on this page.

There are five steps that you must take to create a new Flex 4 Skin (for any Spark component):
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November 23rd, 2010 at 6:31 pm

Creating a Custom Flex Button Skin Using Flash CS3

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This short example will show how you can use Flash CS3 Professional to create a custom skin that you can then use to create a custom button for your Flex applications.

The steps that we will take:

  1. Create the art work with Flash for the up, down, over and disabled states for the custom button
  2. Convert the artwork to symbols and export them for ActionScript
  3. Use the resulting SWF in a Flex application to create a custom Flex Button

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August 6th, 2009 at 12:45 am

Posted in Flash,Flex,Styling Components

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