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Spark Icon button

So the Spark button doesn't have the icon property... which to be honest annoys me a little, but I do understand that they want the skin to be separate from the code. Anyway, I made an icon button based on some other examples I've looked over. To see the working example with view source enabled click here .

Spark ComboBox vs DropDownList

I discovered yesterday that with the new Spark components there was no "editable" property on the ComboBox component. I realized that the Spark ComboBox is always editable by default, and with no way to turn that off I was confused. Did a little research and found that to have what would have been ComboBox editable="false" in Halo is now simply DropDownList. Two different components. I think it makes sense to have these separate.

Learning Flex 4

I am watching a few videos on Flash Builder 4 (or Flex 4) from Adobe's site. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ This is my first taste of the Spark components, and let me tell you, they are so much better and easier to customize. They haven't transfered all the components over to spark yet, so we'll still have to use some MX components, but they have done a lot of them already, and are continuing to work to get them all converted. I haven't tried to actually do any real work with this yet, but so far it has my vote.