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Flex 4 / Flash Builder 4: baseColor changed to chromeColor

April 13, 2010

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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website

Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.


While I was developing in the new Flash Builder 4 / Flex 4 environment yesterday, I tried to use the baseColor property on the s:Application tag to give it a default color, just like I explained in this example. I noticed however, that Flash Builder gave an error that it didn’t recognize the baseColor property…
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Using baseColor to Style Components in Flex 4

February 10, 2010

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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website

Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.


Flex 3 was a great product, but to be fair….changing default application appearance was a pain in the ass. I’m not a designer by any means so I was always a bit frustrated when I was trying to do something different with the appearance. Luckily for me and all you programmers out there…Flex 4 offers a nice little solution to change the defaults a bit by setting only one attribute on your application or your components: baseColor.
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