How to create a custom button skin in a Flex web application?

That’s a common question but a simple google will not reveal so much info on how to do it.
The limitation with default flex skin is that even we can define as many colors we want in a “gradient fill” the “ButtonSkin” will take in consideration only the first 2 of them.
Why did they made it like this ? donno, and do not care! So we extended the existing skin and created a custom skin for buttons.
Here is how it does look:

Yes.. this is a flex button.

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Bye!