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Somethings been bugging me while skinning a flex application :

The label from the selected tab from the TabNavigator component is 1px lower than the other tabs. As you can see in the example.
(It has something to to with the bottom border I’m guessing).

This can help as a visual support you are on a different tab, but I found it rather annoying, so here is my fix for it.
A quick fix by changing the “paddingTop” property.

View source is enabled so can download the example there.
http://ninetynine.be/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/srcview/index.html

Code after the jump.

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import mx.events.IndexChangedEvent;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
 
/*
*	@author: Michiel Vancoillie
*	http://www.ninetynine.be
*/
 
private function init():void{
 
	//fix the first selected tab
	fixedTabNav.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,onTabNavCreated);
	//fix the newly selected tab
	fixedTabNav.addEventListener(IndexChangedEvent.CHANGE,onTabNavChanged);
 
	//JUST ADD THE SAME EVENTLISTENERS TO ALL TABNAVIGATORS YOU WANT FIXED
	//notfixedTabNav.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE,onTabNavCreated);
	//notfixedTabNav.addEventListener(IndexChangedEvent.CHANGE,onTabNavChanged);
}
 
private function onTabNavCreated(e:Event):void{
	var tabNav:TabNavigator = e.target as TabNavigator;
	tabNav.getTabAt(tabNav.selectedIndex).setStyle('paddingTop',-1)
}
 
private function onTabNavChanged(e:IndexChangedEvent):void{
	var tabNav:TabNavigator = e.target as TabNavigator;
	//reset the old tab
	tabNav.getTabAt(e.oldIndex).setStyle('paddingTop',0);
	//fix the new tab
	tabNav.getTabAt(e.newIndex).setStyle('paddingTop',-1);
}

The as3growl library is an ActionScript library that leverages new TCP socket communication functionality within the Growl notification framework to allow Adobe AIR and Flash applications to register with, send notifications, and receive events from the Growl service.

You can grab the latest as3growl here or with the svn :

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svn checkout http://as3growl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ as3growl-read-only

The support for AIR and flash is not yet in the release version, so the first step is download the nightly build from growl :

http://bitbucket.org/evands/growl/changeset/eb9d3e4d9fa3/

1. Unzip
2. Open Growl.xcodeproj in Xcode 3.1
3. Set target to “Deployment”
4. Build
5. Double click the “Build/Deployment/Growl.prefPane” file to install the compiled Growl.

To start using the as3growl API, you can check out the example on the wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/as3growl/wiki/UsingTheLibrary

I’ll probably post a little tutorial later!