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StyleManager 
Packagemx.styles
Classpublic class StyleManager
InheritanceStyleManager Inheritance Object

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

The StyleManager class manages the following:
  • Which CSS style properties the class inherits
  • Which style properties are colors, and therefore get special handling
  • A list of strings that are aliases for color values

See also



Public Properties
 PropertyDefined By
 Inheritedconstructor : Object
A reference to the class object or constructor function for a given object instance.
Object
 Inheritedprototype : Object
[static] A reference to the prototype object of a class or function object.
Object
  selectors : Array
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.selectors on a style manager instance
[static] [read-only] Returns an Array of all the CSS selectors that are registered with the StyleManager.
StyleManager
Public Methods
 MethodDefined By
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.clearStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance
[static] Clears the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getColorName on a style manager instance
[static] Returns the numeric RGB color value that corresponds to the specified color string.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getColorNames on a style manager instance
[static] Converts each element of the colors Array from a color name to a numeric RGB color value.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance
[static] Gets the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.
StyleManager
  
[static] Returns the style manager for an object.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Indicates whether an object has a specified property defined.
Object
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isColorName on a style manager instance
[static] Tests to see if the given String is an alias for a color value.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isInheritingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Tests to see if a style is inheriting.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isInheritingTextFormatStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Test to see if a TextFormat style is inheriting.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Tests to see if this style affects the component's parent container in such a way as to require that the parent container redraws itself when this style changes.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isParentSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Tests to see if the style changes the size of the component's parent container.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Indicates whether an instance of the Object class is in the prototype chain of the object specified as the parameter.
Object
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Tests to see if a style changes the size of a component.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isValidStyleValue on a style manager instance
[static] Determines if a specified parameter is a valid style property.
StyleManager
  
loadStyleDeclarations(url:String, update:Boolean = true, trustContent:Boolean = false, applicationDomain:ApplicationDomain = null, securityDomain:SecurityDomain = null):IEventDispatcher
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.loadStyleDeclarations on a style manager instance
[static] Loads a style SWF.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Indicates whether the specified property exists and is enumerable.
Object
  
registerColorName(colorName:String, colorValue:uint):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerColorName on a style manager instance
[static] Adds a color name to the list of aliases for colors.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerInheritingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Adds to the list of styles that can inherit values from their parents.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Adds to the list of styles which may affect the appearance or layout of the component's parent container.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerParentSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Adds to the list of styles which may affect the measured size of the component's parent container.
StyleManager
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance
[static] Adds to the list of styles which may affect the measured size of the component.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Sets the availability of a dynamic property for loop operations.
Object
  
setStyleDeclaration(selector:String, styleDeclaration:CSSStyleDeclaration, update:Boolean):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.setStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance
[static] Sets the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Returns the string representation of this object, formatted according to locale-specific conventions.
Object
 Inherited
Returns the string representation of the specified object.
Object
  
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.unloadStyleDeclarations on a style manager instance
[static] Unloads a style SWF.
StyleManager
 Inherited
Returns the primitive value of the specified object.
Object
Public Constants
 ConstantDefined By
  NOT_A_COLOR : uint = 0xFFFFFFFF
[static] The getColorName() method returns this value if the passed-in String is not a legitimate color name.
StyleManager
Property Detail

selectors

property
selectors:Array  [read-only]
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.selectors on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Returns an Array of all the CSS selectors that are registered with the StyleManager. You can pass items in this Array to the getStyleDeclaration() method to get the corresponding CSSStyleDeclaration object. Class selectors are prepended with a period.



Implementation
    public static function get selectors():Array
Method Detail

clearStyleDeclaration

()method
public static function clearStyleDeclaration(selector:String, update:Boolean):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.clearStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Clears the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.

If the specified selector is a class selector (for example, ".bigMargins" or ".myStyle"), you must be sure to start the selector property with a period (.).

If the specified selector is a type selector (for example, "Button"), do not start the selector property with a period.

The global selector is similar to a type selector and does not start with a period.

Parameters

selector:String — The name of the CSS selector to clear.
 
update:Boolean — Set to true to force an immediate update of the styles. Set to false to avoid an immediate update of the styles in the application. For more information about this method, see the description in the setStyleDeclaration() method.

See also

getColorName

()method 
public static function getColorName(colorName:Object):uint
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getColorName on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Returns the numeric RGB color value that corresponds to the specified color string. The color string can be either a case-insensitive color name such as "red", "Blue", or "haloGreen", a hexadecimal value such as 0xFF0000, or a #-hexadecimal String such as "#FF0000".

This method returns a uint, such as 4521830, that represents a color. You can convert this uint to a hexadecimal value by passing the numeric base (in this case, 16), to the uint class's toString() method, as the following example shows:

      import mx.styles.StyleManager;
      private function getNewColorName():void {
          StyleManager.registerColorName("soylentGreen",0x44FF66);
          trace(StyleManager.getColorName("soylentGreen").toString(16));
      }
      

Parameters

colorName:Object — The color name.

Returns
uint — Returns a uint that represents the color value or NOT_A_COLOR if the value of the colorName property is not an alias for a color.

getColorNames

()method 
public static function getColorNames(colors:Array):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getColorNames on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Converts each element of the colors Array from a color name to a numeric RGB color value. Each color String can be either a case-insensitive color name such as "red", "Blue", or "haloGreen", a hexadecimal value such as 0xFF0000, or a #-hexadecimal String such as "#FF0000"..

Parameters

colors:Array — An Array of color names.

getStyleDeclaration

()method 
public static function getStyleDeclaration(selector:String):CSSStyleDeclaration
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.getStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Gets the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.

If the selector parameter starts with a period (.), the returned CSSStyleDeclaration is a class selector and applies only to those instances whose styleName property specifies that selector (not including the period). For example, the class selector ".bigMargins" applies to any UIComponent whose styleName is "bigMargins".

If the selector parameter does not start with a period, the returned CSSStyleDeclaration is a type selector and applies to all instances of that type. For example, the type selector "Button" applies to all instances of Button and its subclasses.

The global selector is similar to a type selector and does not start with a period.

Parameters

selector:String — The name of the CSS selector.

Returns
CSSStyleDeclaration — The style declaration whose name matches the selector property.

getStyleManager

()method 
public static function getStyleManager(moduleFactory:IFlexModuleFactory):IStyleManager2

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 4
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5

Returns the style manager for an object.

Parameters

moduleFactory:IFlexModuleFactory — The module factory of an object you want the style manager for. If null, the top-level style manager is returned.

Returns
IStyleManager2 — the style manager for the given module factory.

isColorName

()method 
public static function isColorName(colorName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isColorName on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Tests to see if the given String is an alias for a color value. For example, by default, the String "blue" is an alias for 0x0000FF.

Parameters

colorName:String — The color name to test. This parameter is not case-sensitive.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if colorName is an alias for a color.

isInheritingStyle

()method 
public static function isInheritingStyle(styleName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isInheritingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Tests to see if a style is inheriting.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style that you test to see if it is inheriting.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if the specified style is inheriting.

isInheritingTextFormatStyle

()method 
public static function isInheritingTextFormatStyle(styleName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isInheritingTextFormatStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Test to see if a TextFormat style is inheriting.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style that you test to see if it is inheriting.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if the specified TextFormat style is inheriting.

isParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function isParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Tests to see if this style affects the component's parent container in such a way as to require that the parent container redraws itself when this style changes.

When one of these styles is set with setStyle(), the invalidateDisplayList() method is auomatically called on the component's parent container to make it redraw and/or relayout its children.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style to test.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if the specified style is one which may affect the appearance or layout of the component's parent container.

isParentSizeInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function isParentSizeInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isParentSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Tests to see if the style changes the size of the component's parent container.

When one of these styles is set with setStyle(), the invalidateSize() method is automatically called on the component's parent container to make its measured size get recalculated later.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style to test.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if the specified style is one which may affect the measured size of the component's parent container.

isSizeInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function isSizeInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Tests to see if a style changes the size of a component.

When one of these styles is set with the setStyle() method, the invalidateSize() method is automatically called on the component to make its measured size get recalculated later.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style to test.

Returns
Boolean — Returns true if the specified style is one which may affect the measured size of the component.

isValidStyleValue

()method 
public static function isValidStyleValue(value:*):Boolean
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.isValidStyleValue on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Determines if a specified parameter is a valid style property. For example:

      trace(StyleManager.isValidStyleValue(myButton.getStyle("color")).toString());
      

This can be useful because some styles can be set to values such as 0, NaN, the empty String (""), or null, which can cause an if (value) test to fail.

Parameters

value:* — The style property to test.

Returns
Boolean — If you pass the value returned by a getStyle() method call to this method, it returns true if the style was set and false if it was not set.

loadStyleDeclarations

()method 
public static function loadStyleDeclarations(url:String, update:Boolean = true, trustContent:Boolean = false, applicationDomain:ApplicationDomain = null, securityDomain:SecurityDomain = null):IEventDispatcher
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.loadStyleDeclarations on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Loads a style SWF.

Parameters

url:String — Location of the style SWF.
 
update:Boolean (default = true) — Set to true to force an immediate update of the styles. Set to false to avoid an immediate update of the styles in the application. This parameter is optional and defaults to true For more information about this parameter, see the description in the setStyleDeclaration() method.
 
trustContent:Boolean (default = false) — Obsolete, no longer used. This parameter is optional and defaults to false.
 
applicationDomain:ApplicationDomain (default = null) — The ApplicationDomain passed to the load() method of the IModuleInfo that loads the style SWF. This parameter is optional and defaults to null.
 
securityDomain:SecurityDomain (default = null) — The SecurityDomain passed to the load() method of the IModuleInfo that loads the style SWF. This parameter is optional and defaults to null.

Returns
IEventDispatcher — An IEventDispatcher implementation that supports StyleEvent.PROGRESS, StyleEvent.COMPLETE, and StyleEvent.ERROR.

See also

registerColorName

()method 
public static function registerColorName(colorName:String, colorValue:uint):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerColorName on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Adds a color name to the list of aliases for colors.

Parameters

colorName:String — The name of the color to add to the list; for example, "blue". If you later access this color name, the value is not case-sensitive.
 
colorValue:uint — Color value, for example, 0x0000FF.

registerInheritingStyle

()method 
public static function registerInheritingStyle(styleName:String):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerInheritingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Adds to the list of styles that can inherit values from their parents.

Note: Ensure that you avoid using duplicate style names, as name collisions can result in decreased performance if a style that is already used becomes inheriting.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style that is added to the list of styles that can inherit values.

registerParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function registerParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerParentDisplayListInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Adds to the list of styles which may affect the appearance or layout of the component's parent container. When one of these styles is set with setStyle(), the invalidateDisplayList() method is auomatically called on the component's parent container to make it redraw and/or relayout its children.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style to register.

registerParentSizeInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function registerParentSizeInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerParentSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Adds to the list of styles which may affect the measured size of the component's parent container.

When one of these styles is set with setStyle(), the invalidateSize() method is automatically called on the component's parent container to make its measured size get recalculated later.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style to register.

registerSizeInvalidatingStyle

()method 
public static function registerSizeInvalidatingStyle(styleName:String):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.registerSizeInvalidatingStyle on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Adds to the list of styles which may affect the measured size of the component. When one of these styles is set with setStyle(), the invalidateSize() method is automatically called on the component to make its measured size get recalculated later.

Parameters

styleName:String — The name of the style that you add to the list.

setStyleDeclaration

()method 
public static function setStyleDeclaration(selector:String, styleDeclaration:CSSStyleDeclaration, update:Boolean):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.setStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Sets the CSSStyleDeclaration object that stores the rules for the specified CSS selector.

If the selector parameter starts with a period (.), the specified selector is a "class selector" and applies only to those instances whose styleName property specifies that selector (not including the period). For example, the class selector ".bigMargins" applies to any UIComponent whose styleName is "bigMargins".

If the selector parameter does not start with a period, the specified selector is a "type selector" and applies to all instances of that type. For example, the type selector "Button" applies to all instances of Button and its subclasses.

The global selector is similar to a type selector and does not start with a period.

Parameters

selector:String — The name of the CSS selector.
 
styleDeclaration:CSSStyleDeclaration — The new style declaration.
 
update:Boolean — Set to true to force an immediate update of the styles; internally, Flex calls the styleChanged() method of UIComponent. Set to false to avoid an immediate update of the styles in the application.

The styles will be updated the next time one of the following methods is called with the update property set to true:

  • clearStyleDeclaration()
  • loadStyleDeclarations()
  • setStyleDeclaration()
  • unloadStyleDeclarations()

Typically, if you call the one of these methods multiple times, you set this property to true only on the last call, so that Flex does not call the styleChanged() method multiple times.

If you call the getStyle() method, Flex returns the style value that was last applied to the UIComponent through a call to the styleChanged() method. The component's appearance might not reflect the value returned by the getStyle() method. This occurs because one of these style declaration methods might not yet have been called with the update property set to true.

unloadStyleDeclarations

()method 
public static function unloadStyleDeclarations(url:String, update:Boolean = true):void
Deprecated Since 4.0: Please Use IStyleManager2.unloadStyleDeclarations on a style manager instance

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

Unloads a style SWF.

Parameters

url:String — Location of the style SWF.
 
update:Boolean (default = true) — Set to true to force an immediate update of the styles. Set to false to avoid an immediate update of the styles in the application. For more information about this method, see the description in the setStyleDeclaration() method.

See also

Constant Detail

NOT_A_COLOR

Constant
public static const NOT_A_COLOR:uint = 0xFFFFFFFF

Language Version: ActionScript 3.0
Product Version: Flex 3
Runtime Versions: Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1

The getColorName() method returns this value if the passed-in String is not a legitimate color name.