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Questions tagged [halo]
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What's the deal with Halo and Spark in Flex 4?
I used Flex 2/3 for a couple of years and have just come back to it, upgrading to Flex 4. I'm seeing some references to Halo and Spark themes but I never got into themes in my previous work so I'm a bit confused what's going on. Am I correct that…
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parentApplication and FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication in Flex 4
In Flex 4, are there any differences between parentApplication and FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication? Are referring to the same top level application?
I think both are same; one (parentApplication) belongs to Spark and the other…
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Blue "Halo" on tabs in Safari
I have a issue on tab in safari specially. I have create tabs and when I select any tab create border blue around it.
I think it's call HALO effect.
You can check it in attached image. I tried to solved this but had no success. How do I remove that…
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What are the downsides to using Spark over Halo in Flex?
Is there more work, or source code files required to customize your look and feel (skins)? How maintainable and readable is Spark relative to Halo? Is it more productive and easier to customize overall than Halo, about the same, less?
If you're an…
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Creating a border container with border sides and separate corner radius
In the Spark BorderContainer component the border sides and corner radius styles were not copied over from the halo component set (see here).
Specifically:
borderSides (left, top, bottom, right)
cornerRadius(TL/TR/BL/BR) …
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Setting compiler.theme option for Halo/Flex 4 in FlashDevelop
Here's what works with ant build.xml:
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How do you remove the border of a Flex 4 TextArea Component (spark themed halo)
With the Flex 3 SDK you simply needed to set the borderThickness style to 0, or set borderStyle to none. With the Flex 4 SDK ad the Spark theme, this has no effect.
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Halo theme on a Spark component
I have a Flex form made up mostly of MX components. Due to limitations with the MX mx.controls.ComboBox, I'd like to use the Spark control, spark.components.ComboBox. This works, except the Spark ComboBox sticks out visually because it doesn't use…
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What's the difference between the mx/fx/s object types in Flex 4?
Flex4 provides the following namespaces:
xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
What's the difference? Which namespace provide which function? Where can I…
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In Flex, is there a Spark equivalent of DividedBox?
I need a kind of DividedBox with Flex (4.6). This is a component where two groups of components are separated by a bar that can be moved with the mouse. The user can hence chose which group can have more space on the screen.
Of course, there are…
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Is it possible to style a Spark Button like an old Halo Button? (with CSS only)
I think Adobe are messing with me, from all the docs and tutorials it seems like styling a simple button got much more difficult in Flex 4 (Spark). I used to be able to have my designer create the CSS as it wasn't too far off from web standard CSS.…
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Pros and cons of Spark vs. Halo theme in Flex 4
Possible Duplicate:
What are the downsides to using Spark over Halo in Flex?
I have a library written in Flex 3 (and hence, with Halo theme), so it's getting a lot of conflicts in my application (which is Flex 4 and Spark theme).
I've changed to…
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Make the Flex4 Button look exactly like the Flex3 Button
If I had a button in Flex3
.buttonStyle{
corner-radius:5;
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What is the difference between Halo and Spark in Flex3 and Flex4?
Possible Duplicate:
What are the downsides to using Spark over Halo in Flex?
What is the difference between Halo and Spark in Flex3 and Flex4?
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Skinning a Spark HSlider in Flex 4
The application I'm working on needs to have a slider to allow the user to select a Date. However, the Spark hSlider component does not have a 'labels' field like the halo hSlider does - into which you could put a collection of labels to be…
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