How to create a button on our desire shape like circle, star in flex 3?

Question

I would like to customize the shape of the button to different shapes like circle, star, square or of any shape. How would i achieve so?

Answer 1

I apologize because this doesn't answer your question, but:

In order to make sure the user can reliably click on your button, you probably want it to be a convex shape. A rectangle or circle is fine, and you could paint a star on it. But you wouldn't want the user to try to click your star and miss, just because they were not quite inside one of its arms.

Answer 2

Canvas can be used as button. Take a canvas of required size. Give your required button shape(image) as background image to canvas. Example:

Explanation: {nextYellowButton} is the embedded button. It is an arrow mark shape button. It is a .PNG image. So, it doesn't include the background color. Now your button is of arrow shape. it occupies 50px * 50px area on screen. But it looks exactly like an arrow mark.