Friday, April 6, 2007

mx.controls.Slider/HSlider/VSlider

How to add and removes thumbs:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[

public function add(event:MouseEvent):void {
slider.thumbCount++; // add new thumb

//! if you don't set the value of the new thumb all thumbs will reset
// thumbCount-1 is the last one added
// 5 is a number i randomly picked
slider.setThumbValueAt(slider.thumbCount-1,5);
}
public function remove(event:MouseEvent):void {
var index:int = 0; // the index of the thumb to be removed, indices are constant even with allowThumbOverlap="true"
slider.thumbCount--; // remove thumb
var values1:Array = slider.values; // get values of slider
values1.splice(index,1); // splice value at index out or the last one will be choped of by default
slider.values = values1; // set updated values
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HSlider id="slider" thumbCount="2" allowThumbOverlap="true"/>
<mx:Button click="add(event)" label="add"/>
<mx:Button click="remove(event)" label="remove"/>
</mx:Application>

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey I tried your removethumb thing with an index other than 0 and it didn't seem to work....I get the thumb removed from the current spot, but then get another one at the 0 spot...I did a print out and it seems that the pointer gets NaN'd, hslider still thinks it has 3 thumbs.

Anonymous said...

Never mind...it was a typo on my part, works great!

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