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In this article I will create a custom Spark Panel component that will look something like this:

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):

1. Create a new MXML component that extends the SparkSkin class
2. Define the states of the Skin. The default states for most of the components are normal and disabled
3. Define the HostComponent between Metadata tags
4. Specify all the graphical elements that are used by the custom Skin
5. Define the skin parts for the skin

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