Should work. Debug into it. Make sure it has been created. You might be asking too soon.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of markgoldin_2000 Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: dataGrid - hightlight row I am trying this in dataGrid: trace(listContent.getChildByName("rowBGs")); but it returns null. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > drawRowBackground runs often, not just at creation time, but it does run > before drawColumnBackgrounds. > > > > You can use the examples from my blog that have customized cell > backgrounds and skip the whole drawRow/drawColumn stuff. > > > > You can also try switching the z order of the row and column > backgrounds. That's not officially supported, but some sort of > > > > getChildByName("lines") and getChildByName("rowBGs") and testing > getChildIndex and using setChildIndex might allow you to switch the z > order. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of markgoldin_2000 > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:18 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] dataGrid - hightlight row > > > > I have seen some examples of this and these samples I've seen all are > implementing drawRowBackground which works fine but not in my case. I > need to change row's background after I have applied columns > background. But drawRowBackground runs at a time dataGrtid is created > so my row background that was set in drawRowBackground gets overwritten > by the later upplied column's background. I am then trying to implement > a custom renderer that accepts a click and changes draws a colored area > around itself: > g.drawRect(e.target.x, e.target.y, e.target.width, e.target.height + 1); > g.endFill(); > > Using this approach I can color the whole row. But is a catch: my > columns have different colors. In case I have to restore row's > background color to original color how can I do that? Is there a simple > way of doing it or I need to store colors into array and then restore > them using same technique? > > Thanks >
