Holy Smokes Douglas, I got it to work! You are awesome, thanks for showing me the way!! So ItemRenderer does not expose drawBackground directly the way that LabelItemRenderer does, but I watched a very valuable video on how to dig deep into Flex Source Code that helped me search for what I needed. That video is here:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/360flex-conference/reading-the-flex-source-code-by-jonathan-branam/ What I found after searching is that I could override an mx_internal function called drawBackground, which you MUST be sure to include this namespace or you will get a 1004 error. public namespace mx_internal = "http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal";; So, basically, I just create an overlay rectangle in my ItemRenderer with the visibility set to false. I then override the drawBackground function to test the "selected" Boolean, and if the renderer is selected, I change the overlay visibility to true. So it breaks down like this: <fx:Script> </fx:Script> <s:Rect id="overlayRect" x="0" y="0" alpha=".3" visible="false"> <s:fill> <s:SolidColor color="#A30000"/> </s:fill> </s:Rect> -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/ItemRenderer-What-event-to-react-to-tp15157p15194.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
