[AS2] TextArea Component - bg transparent?

[Mortimer Jazz]

Originally Posted by danimal

A project I'm working on requires a textarea ... just changing the _alpha of depthChild0 seems the quickest.
Thanks

You can do it globally like this:
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor" , "false");

You can also do this:

_global.styles.TextArea.backgroundColor = undefined;

I haven't compared the results of the depthchild hack to the above methods, so I'm not entirely sure if/where the results differ. The main reason I can think of for favouring the above methods is for future compatability. Using the public methods of a class means that we'll still get the same result even if the inner workings of the component are altered by Adobe at a later date.

[gpacioli]

is this thread still active ? newbee wants to make background black and font white on tree component

[gpacioli]

can someone point me to an example of a working transparent tree background? please.

[red penguin]

Mortimer Jazz's example in a previous post!

[gpacioli]

Originally Posted by nicholaswatton

thanks farairo, but it's still not getting there - i'm finding lots of different ways to make the background invisible, but they all remove the ability to click a List item.
will continue to search....

have you tried LiveDocs?

[Blindeye]

I couldn't use the same code for the textArea transparency for a textInput area. Is there a reason for this?

[Brisa]

I've been using this code that I found somewhere (can't remember where)..It works.

_global.styles.ScrollSelectList.backgroundColor = undefined;
mx.controls.listclasses.SelectableRow.prototype.drawRowFill = function (myTree:MovieClip, newClr:Number): Void {
myTree.clear();
if (newClr == undefined)
myTree.beginFill(0xABCDEF, 0);
else
myTree.beginFill(newClr);

myTree.drawRect(1, 0, this.__width, this.__height);
myTree.endFill();

myTree._width = this.__width;
myTree._height = this.__height;
}

[Blindeye]

That prevents people from selecting the Tree options.

[Brisa]

What tree options? I tried with my tree and my items are selectable..

tks

Brisa

[YousufHaq]

anyone know why when you implement :

_level0.myText4.depthChild0._alpha=0;


and try to load that swf into another it doesnt work?