The following example shows how you can change the value in a Flex Gumbo FxHSlider component by using the step() method.

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On November 17th, Adobe released Flex Builder 3.0.2 and Flex SDK 3.2. For more information on what’s new, check out Matt Chotin’s excellent article, “Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2″.

There are two ways to download and install the latest update to Flex Builder 3.
The easiest way is to select Help > Search for Flex Builder Updates from the main menu in Flex Builder. This should launch the Adobe updater which will search for the latest version of Flex Builder on the Adobe servers.
The other way to get the latest Flex Builder update is to go to the Adobe Flex Support Center’s “Updaters” page and download the updater installer for Mac or Windows.

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In a previous example, “Paging through an FxHScrollBar in Flex Gumbo”, we saw how you could change the horizontal scroll position a single page up or page down in a Flex Gumbo FxHScrollBar component by using the page() method.

The following example shows how you can change the horizontal scroll position a single line up or line down in a Flex Gumbo FxHScrollBar component by using the step() method.

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The following example shows how you can change the horizontal scroll position a single page up or page down in a Flex Gumbo FxHScrollBar component by using the page() method.

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The following example shows how you can wrap values in a Flex FxNumericStepper control by setting the valueWrap property.

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The following example shows how you can use ActionScript to select text in a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by calling the setSelection() method. This example also shows how you can determine the current text selection’s anchor position and active position by using the selectionAnchorPosition and selectionActivePosition properties.

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In previous examples, “Setting the text selection color on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo” and “Setting the unfocused text selection color on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo”, we saw how to to set the text selection color when the FxTextArea is focused and unfocused by setting the selectionColor and unfocusedSelectionColor styles respectively.

The following example shows how you can set the inactive text selection color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the inactiveSelectionColor style.

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In a previous example, “Setting the text selection color on a FxTextArea control in Flex Gumbo”, we saw how you couldset the text selection color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the selectionColor style.

The following example shows how you can set the unfocused text selection color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the unfocusedSelectionColor style.

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The following example shows how you can set the text selection color on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the selectionColor style.

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The following example shows how you can create multicolumn text in a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the columnCount style.

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The following example shows how you can set an Ellipse object’s mask type as a clip mask or alpha mask by setting the maskType property.

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The following example shows how you can detect when the number of RadioButton objects changes in a RadioButtonGroup in Flex by listening for the numRadioButtonsChanged event.

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The following example shows how you can open a new browser window/tab by double clicking a Flex Image control by setting the doubleClickEnabled property to true and calling the navigateToURL() method

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The following example shows how you can set the text color for the selected button in a Flex ToggleButtonBar control by setting the selectedButtonTextStyleName style.

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The following example shows how you can add custom context menu items to a Flex application by creating new ContextMenuItem objects and adding them to the Flex application’s customItems array (via the contextMenu property).

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The following example shows how you can create an animated transition between two colors using the Flex Gumbo FxAnimateColor class.

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The following example shows how you can use an XML object as a data provider for a Flex DataGrid control and use a custom label function to display the XML node’s name.

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The following example shows how you can set the line height on a Flex Gumbo FxTextArea control by setting the lineHeight style.

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The following example shows how you can align text vertically within a Flex Gumbo FxTextInput control by setting the verticalAlign style.

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The following example shows how you can set mouse cursors in Flash Player 10 by setting the Mouse object’s cursor property to one of the static constants in the MouseCursor class.

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