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CHAPTER 11
Creating Custom Style
Properties
Properties
Styles are useful for defining the look and feel of your Adobe Flex applications, including
letting users set component skins. You can use them to change the appearance of a single
component, or apply them across all components. This topic describes how to create style
properties for your custom components.
letting users set component skins. You can use them to change the appearance of a single
component, or apply them across all components. This topic describes how to create style
properties for your custom components.
Contents
About styles
You modify the appearance of Flex components through style properties. These properties can
define the size of a font used in a
define the size of a font used in a
Label
control, or the background color used in the
Tree
control. In Flex, some styles are inherited from parent containers to their children, and across
style types and classes. This means that you can define a style once, and then have that style
apply to all controls of a single type or to a set of controls. Also, you can override individual
properties for each control at a local, document, or global level, giving you great flexibility in
controlling the appearance of your applications.
style types and classes. This means that you can define a style once, and then have that style
apply to all controls of a single type or to a set of controls. Also, you can override individual
properties for each control at a local, document, or global level, giving you great flexibility in
controlling the appearance of your applications.
For more information, see Chapter 18, “Using Styles and Themes,” in Flex 2 Developer’s
Guide.
Guide.