Flex for Touch Screen Interfaces

I am evaluating using Flex for the development of a couple of
touch screen kiosk projects. One major issue is the UI elements
like scroll bars. For both these projects, scroll bars are a design
necessity. (For better or for worse) Looking at the class
references it does not seem immediately clear that the scroll bars
can be modified in size. I do see that they can be skinned, but
there is no indication that I can go from the 16 px wide vertical
scroller to one say 48 px wide.
Any thoughts?

I believe you can. If you lookup the source code you can
change these constants, create your own libraries and use them. you
will have to learn FLEX beyond evaluating it to prove this out, but
it could be done. It's open source, but you need to check out the
type of license. You may be able to sell it as a proprietary
component.

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