I have been working on a calendar of events flex application as most anybody who monitors these flex lists probably has noticed. This is a reworking of an existing [D]HTML/CFML application. Part of the current display is that canceled events are displayed with a strike-through text decoration.
I am trying to convey this same information in the flex version. I have tried using a strike-through decoration, but my attempts to use htmlText functionality in flex did not produce any results. I then tried to use the alpha property to fade the canceled events. After embedding a font so that the alpha effect would take effect, the results where less then desirable, it was just not clear enough. Any suggestions on a simple but effective way to display the canceled events? It should be noted that the events are color coded to indicate which of four areas to which they belong. This color coded information needs to be maintained for canceled events and I am reluctant to try and create four "canceled" colors. This is a quite a colorful, busy, information packed screen as it is. Is there an easy way I could apply an image/graphic/effect to create some kind of diagonal lines mask/background of the box containing the canceled drive information?
