I got the itemRenderer to work pretty easy with your ideas Alex. Thanks
for the help.
scalenine:
If you wanted the background of the itemRenderer to be transparent
so the application background shows through, could you not just set the
backgroundAlpha of the itemRenderer? Assuming your itemRenderer is of a
type that supports backgrounds and alpha whatnots.
--- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Then I subclass and override
> drawHighlightIndicator/drawSelectionIndicator.
>
> -Alex
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scalenine
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcomponents] Re: How to change
> background/highlight/selected color in an itemRenderer?
>
>
>
> What if you want the background of the itemRenderer and the List to be
> transparent so the background of your application shows through?
>
> Juan
>
> --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" aharui@
> wrote:
> >
> > The List draws highlight and selection underneath the renderer. If
> > you've fully painted the background of your renderer, you've
> effectively
> > turned it off, and then you can set the background to any color you
> want
> > based on whether you're highlighted or selected.
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Aaron Wright
> > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:48 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [flexcomponents] Re: How to change
> > background/highlight/selected color in an itemRenderer?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok. I guess backgroundColor is a breeze. I got that working, and
using
> a
> > little logic from your examples, I have the selection and highlight
> > colors showing.
> >
> > This is only a third of the problem though, and the easy third I
> think.
> > If I'm thinking about this right, the List, for example, handles the
> > highlight and selection drawing itself? Not the individual
renderers?
> > I've looked at the code for the default TreeItemRenderer and
> > ListItemRenderer and they don't do anything with highlighting and
> > selection colors. So to do what I want to do can I turn off the
List's
> > highlighting and selection stuff, and handle it all in the
> itemRenderer
> > via changing the background color based on the isSelected and
> > isHighlighted bools?
> >
> > I guess that will work, but seems hacky. I just wanted to:
> >
> > setStyle("selectionColor", color);
> > setStyle("highlightColor", anotherColor);
> >
> > Guess I'm pipe dreaming.
> >
> > Thanks for the ideas.
> >
> > --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <aharui@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > The backgroundColor defaults to transparent so that the highlight
> and
> > > selection can be seen underneath the renderer.
> > >
> > > You should be able to set backgroundColor to some color and get a
> > > background as long as the component you are subclassing implements
a
> > > background (some don't). You can always just draw a colored
> > rectangle.
> > > If you do have a backgroundColor you won't see highlight and
> selection
> > > unless you draw your own representation or turn off the
background.
> > >
> > > There are examples related to this on my blog
> > > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/item_renderers/
> <http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/item_renderers/>
> > <http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/item_renderers/
> <http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/item_renderers/> >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Aaron
Wright
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:29 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:flexcomponents%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: [flexcomponents] How to change
> background/highlight/selected
> > > color in an itemRenderer?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been trying to change the background, highlight, and selected
> > > color of items in a tree or list using custom itemRenderers. I
> haven't
> > > been able to do it yet. I can set the color of children components
> of
> > > the itemRenderer, but it seems the background, highlight, and
> selected
> > > color are part of the owner (tree or list).
> > >
> > > What should the itemRenderer be doing to accomplish this?
> > >
> >
>
