A TextInput just contains a TextField and draws border and background around it. DGIR extends TextField. If you're ok with popup editors, I'd extends both DGIR as the renderer and TextInput as the editor.
If you really need TextInput as the renderer, try setting backgroundColor="". I'm not sure I understand what was wrong about backgroundAlpha=0 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Falling Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? I'm trying to make an editable password column in a datagrid that displays asterisks instead of the characters of the string that it's displaying. Simply using a TextInput with displayAsPassword does exactly this, but when the row is selected (whether the password field is selected or not), the password field has a solid white background. This looks inconsistent compared to other editable column fields, so I'm hoping someone has a trick to fix this. As Tracy suggested, I can make it's background alpha 0, but then it doesn't look right when it's selected. This may seem petty, but it looks wrong. I can always create an item renderer that emulates the TextInput's displayAsPassword property, but I'm so close now, and was hoping there's a trick I'm missing to get this working. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Maybe I don't understand what you want. Do you want rendererIsEditor or do you want an editor to popup over the cell? My first instinct would be to have an editor popup over the cell so rendererIsEditor=false, and I subclass DGIR as the column renderer, and supply a custom TextInput as the editor with displayAsPassword=false. ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Dennis Falling Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:44 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? I tried doing the same thing I'm doing now, except moving the TextInput into an external item renderer and listening for begin/end edit events to toggle the alpha, but that seemed really clunky. So you're saying that is probably the best way? On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: You should be able to use DataGridItemRenderer and set its displayAsPassword=true in a subclass or in a custom classFactory ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:06 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? Maybe set backgroundAlpha="0"? Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Dennis Falling Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:28 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? I have an editable DataGrid that displays usernames and masked passwords (********). To hide the password, I'm just using an inline item renderer: <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="password" headerText="Password" editorDataField="text" rendererIsEditor="true"> <mx:itemRenderer> <mx:Component> <mx:TextInput displayAsPassword="true" borderStyle="none"/> </mx:Component> </mx:itemRenderer> </mx:DataGridColumn> This works exactly how I want it to, with very little code...except it doesn't look too hot when that row is selected: the TextInput always has a solid white background whether it's selected or not. Is there an easy way to tell it to make it not show a background except when selected (appear like the default item editor)? I've listened to the various edit events but can't figure out a clean way of doing this. Thanks!
