I haven't done much with Spark data grid. In a Spark list, you just create a 
custom item renderer and set 'autoDrawBackground' to false. If you want to 
handle any of the various selection states you can add them to your 
ItemRenderer.

I actually don't do it that way anymore myself. I found I wanted more 
separation between item renderer and look/feel, so I created a class:

public calls SkinnableItemRenderer extends SkinnableComponent implements 
IItemRenderer, IDataRenderer

This allows me to create standard spark skins for my item renderer classes.

It is basically a copy of spark.components.supportClasses.ItemRenderer with 
support for autodrawbackground removed. In replacement, it instantiates an 
InteractionStateDetector on creation and whenever the interaction state changes 
it calls invalidateRendererSkin().  In invalidateRendererSkin(), make sure to 
invalidateSkinState(), and in getCurrentSkinState(), you can use the state 
detector to check for the OVER state.  My getCurrentSkinState() supports all 
the 'built in' states, i.e. dragging, selectedAndShowsCaret, 
hoveredAndShowsCaret... etc. 

I have another class, SkinnabledEditableItemRenderer that extends the available 
states to include editing states.

Hope that helps.


On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:33 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala <[email protected]> wrote:

> One way to do it is to attach a selectionChanging event handler to the
> Spark Datagrid.  In that handler, simply call event.preventDefault()
> 
> Please keep in mind that there may be other side effects to doing this, so
> consult the documentation [1] before trying this :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Om
> 
> [1]
> http://flex.apache.org/asdoc/spark/components/DataGrid.html#event:selectionChanging
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM, mark goldin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> How do I do "disable auto drawing of the selected/hover states"?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jesse Ward-Karet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Why not allow selection but just disable auto drawing of the
>>> selected/hover states? Then use an editable item renderer.
>>> 
>>> On Jul 15, 2013, at 8:23 AM, mark goldin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am working on data editing in Spark dataGrid. Trying to come up with
>> a
>>>> solution where I can use selectionMode="none" but still be able to
>>> activate
>>>> editing in a cell.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>> 
>> 

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