Gordon, thanks for writing back. I have been digging through this code, and it looks lie my original theory is wrong. the css is being defined. The issue I have is this is a custom TabBar and the first tab is suppose to have a different style than the others and that style definition is breaking somewhere.
Again thanks for responding. Jeff --- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Flex 3 however it does not. > > > > How does it fail? When you put > > > > backgroundColor: #FFFFFF > > > > in CSS and execute > > > > var backgroundColor:Number = getStyle("backgroundColor") > > > > what value does this var get set to? It should be 16777215. > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Body Works Studio > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Please help graphics.beginFill and css issue > > > > Hi all, > > came across an issue with our custom tab skin. while drawing the > shapes we pull the colors from our css. the colors are stored like > > backgroundColor: #FFFFFF > > we then call the style via > > var backgroundColor:Number = getStyle( "backgroundColor" ); > > then we fill our shape > graphics.beginFill( backgroundColor, backgroundAlpha ); > > now in flex 2 this worked fine. In Flex 3 however it does not. I did > some testing and if I hardcode backgroundColor: > > var backgroundColor:Number = #FFFFFF; > > the fill still doesnt work. Now if I change the var to a uint and > modify the value to comply > > var backgroundColor:Number = 0xFFFFFF; > > the skin renders. Now here is my issue. css does not recognize > 0xFFFFFF. Any ideas what I am doing wrong, or what I can do to get > this to work with Flex 3? > > thanks your your time > > Jeff >
