Looks like the image is always centered, so your canvas workaround might be best.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of alanmorehead79 Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 7:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Help needed working with "backgroundImage" --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "paulwelling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I need a little help from the Flexperts on this list... This seems > like it should be easy, so I'm feeling that I've missed something... > > I have a .jpg that I want to use as our backgroundImage, 600x800, for > the Application. > > I do NOT want it to be stretched to fill up larger browser areas, so > backgroundSize="auto" (default.) > > I also want this backgroundImage to be positioned at x=0 y=0, all the > time, no matter how big or small the browser becomes... > > The problem is that the backgroundImage for the Application gets > centered, for the browser's' current size, no matter what I do. > > A weak work-around is to create a <Canvas x="0" y="0" > backgroundImage="image.jpg"/> and use absolute positioning for the > Application. But I wanted to avoid absolute positioning and keep the > image at the Application level... > > Is this a limitation with FLEX, or more likely my thinking..? > > Thanks for the help, > Paul > Any luck w/ this? I am going back and cleaning up a beta app and this is one of the things that I would like to "fix". My beta app used the same work-around of making a child canvas w/ a image background.
