With backgroundAlpha=1, the box always has the white background, whether it's selected or not: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/15760/alpha1.PNG
With backgroundAlpha=0, the box never has a white background, even when it is selected: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/15760/alpha0.PNG Both of these ways are inconsistent with the typical appearance of a DataGridColumn. That's all I'm going for- for it to look white when it should (when it's in edit mode) and not white when it shouldn't (when it's not being edited.) I was completely overlooking the fact that you can have a renderer and an editor. I got it looking right by doing this: <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="username" headerText="Username"/> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="password" headerText="Password" editorDataField="text"> <mx:itemEditor> <mx:Component> <mx:TextInput displayAsPassword="true" borderStyle="none" backgroundAlpha="1"/> </mx:Component> </mx:itemEditor> <mx:itemRenderer> <mx:Component> <mx:TextInput displayAsPassword="true" borderStyle="none" backgroundAlpha="0"/> </mx:Component> </mx:itemRenderer> </mx:DataGridColumn> The look I was going for: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/15760/correct.PNG Thanks for the help! On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:31 AM, <> wrote: > 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]> 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] *On > Behalf Of *Dennis Falling > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:44 PM > *To:* [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]> 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] *On > Behalf Of *Tracy Spratt > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:06 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? > > > > Maybe set backgroundAlpha="0"? > > Tracy > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Dennis Falling > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:28 PM > *To:* [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! > > > > > > >
