Gradient Selection background color for DataGrid,Tree,List ... etc.

[springframework]

i have seen this done before.

but i cant figure out how to accomplish this.

does anyone know a way how?


Jesse Couch Actionscript 3.0 vancouver (http://www.jessecouch.com)

[dr_zeus]

The selection color is drawn by the component itself. Check out the drawSelectionIndicator() function in ListBase. It's protected (at least in Flex 3, which I'm looking at right now), so you should be able to easily override it in a subclass and draw the gradient instead of a solid color.

[springframework]

thanks it worked perfect


so in AS3 I can override protected functions even though im not doing it within the same package? it seems like protected just means public?




Jesse Couch Actionscript 3.0 vancouver (http://www.jessecouch.com)

[springframework]

do you know of a way i can have more control over the label?

would an itemRenderer give you the most control?



Jesse Couch Actionscript 3.0 vancouver (http://www.jessecouch.com)

[dr_zeus]

thanks it worked perfect


so in AS3 I can override protected functions even though im not doing it within the same package? it seems like protected just means public?




Jesse Couch Actionscript 3.0 vancouver (http://www.jessecouch.com)

Anything, anywhere can access something that's public.

Anything in the same package may access something that's internal.

Only subclasses may access something that's protected.

Only the class itself may access something that's private.

[dr_zeus]

do you know of a way i can have more control over the label?

would an itemRenderer give you the most control?



Jesse Couch Actionscript 3.0 vancouver (http://www.jessecouch.com)

A custom item renderer would give you complete control.