In flex 1.5 there is, unfortunately, no property that you can set to have a background gradient color other than the default (there is in Flex 2.0).
However, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a background gradient, it just means it will take a little work. On 1.5 projects in the past, we have create a simple gradient in flash authoring and exported it as a swf. The resulting swf is usually smaller that 1K and can be set as the backgroundImage (be sure to set backgroundSize to 100% also).
Otherwise, you can look into programmatically creating a gradient with ActionScript, which would be a quite bit more work, but you wouldn’t have to rely on bringing in a whole swf.
Hope that helps,
-Peter
On 6/22/06 5:33 PM, "Erich Cervantez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Howdy folks, quick noob question: working in Flex 1.5, and I’d like to have a 2-color gradient for the background color (rather than the default gray, or some other solid color). I think I understand that you can have a backgroundImage attribute or a backgroundColor attribute but not both. And the “fillColors” attribute will assist in tinting the background color (or image?). Hmm, anyway, I can’t get a gradient going…anyone know of a trick or am I forced to create a background image anyway?
E
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