That is one I hadn't thought of. I was thinking of either using a StackPane, 
which could contain an ImageView as the bottom-most component, or using a 
Decorator, which could paint under the decorated component (assuming that the 
component was either partially or fully transparent, which could be 
accomplished by setting a background color with an alpha channel).

On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Todd Volkert wrote:

> It's probably not the best way (like Greg says, there are other ways to do 
> this), but FYI, ContainerSkin supports a "backgroundPaint" style, which could 
> be used to set an instance of java.awt.TexturePaint...
> 
> -T
> 
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think any of the skins support an image as a background. However, 
> there are a couple of ways you could do this. Can you describe your use case 
> a little more specifically?
> 
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:53 AM, JohnRodey wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is there any detailed information about changing skins?
> >
> > I'm trying to set an image as my background and have not been able to find
> > much.
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