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I find that the default sliders have a few minor usability issues a) the thumb is too small and b) the hit area of the the thumb is too small. Perhaps I just need new glasses or a bigger screen?

You could skin a slider and change the thumb graphic but it's just as easy to fix with a little actionscript.

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When a user types a character the default behaviour of a list box is to jump to the first item that starts with that character. This is fine for small lists but for a long list of items it's not very useful. A better solution would be if the list box remembered what the user typed and keep looking for matches on the second character, the third character, etc etc.

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Run into a nasty little bug with Flex datagrids the other, under some situations Datagrid columns with their visibility set to false will be displayed!

Here's a workaround.

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If you have a list box with a large number of items in it it can be hard for someone to find the item in the list that they need. One way around this is you add a filter on the list box.

Here's how it's done.

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With flex datagrids you sometimes find you have a datagrid with multiple columns but only one or two columns are editable.

Which column are editable are not immediately apparent to a user, they have to click on cells to find out what's editable or not editable.

You can add some sort of visual indication to show what cells are editable (see here) OR you can make clicking on a row edit a cell.

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Flex datagrids provide an easy way to edit data. However one minor issue is that by default editable cells have no visual indication that they are actually editable.

You can add a graphical or textual indication that is a cell is editable with an item renderer.

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Flex's numeric stepper controls work well but will only work with numeric data so can't be used for editing currency.

There's a few ways around the issues but none of the solutions are perfect.

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