I will check out that effect.
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Instead of changing the alpha property, what about using something like
ColorUtil.adjustBrightness() on the color style to fade the canceled events?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe. <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml>
com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.utils.ColorUtil;
[Bindable]
private var lblColor: uint = 0x202020;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label text="Normal text" color="{lblColor}" />
<mx:Label text="De-emphasized text"
color="{ColorUtil.adjustBrightness(lblColor, 90)}"/>
</mx:Application>
--- In [email protected], Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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