In a previous example, “Alternating row colors in a Flex Tree control using the alternatingItemColors style”, we saw how you can alternate row colors by setting the alternatingItemColors style.
The following example shows how you can alternate item colors based on the item’s depth in a Flex Tree control by setting the depthColors style to an array of colors.

Full code after the jump.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/11/27/alternating-row-colors-in-a-flex-tree-control-using-the-depthcolors-style/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:XMLListCollection id="xmlListColl">
        <mx:source>
            <mx:XMLList>
                <node label="One">
                    <node label="One.1">
                        <node label="One.1.1">
                            <node label="One.1.1.1">
                                <node label="One.1.1.1.1" />
                            </node>
                        </node>
                    </node>
                    <node label="One.2" />
                    <node label="One.3" />
                </node>
                <node label="Two">
                    <node label="Two.1" />
                    <node label="Two.2" />
                    <node label="Two.3" />
                </node>
            </mx:XMLList>
        </mx:source>
    </mx:XMLListCollection>

    <mx:Tree id="tree"
            dataProvider="{xmlListColl}"
            labelField="@label"
            depthColors="[#FFFFFF, #EEEEEE, #DDDDDD, #CCCCCC, #BBBBBB, #AAAAAA]"
            rowCount="4"
            width="300" />

</mx:Application>

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Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

0 Responses to Alternating row colors in a Flex Tree control using the depthColors style

  1. mae says:

    Peter,

    As usual, great examples. It’s really helpful when you embed the sample app.

    Is there a property/method of the tree to determine the depth of a node?

    Is there a depthColors function? Right now I’m doing this sort of thing in a custom itemrenderer with a lot of ugly e4x.

    Thanks,

    matt.

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