Flex Examples
The following example shows how you can fade an item renderer background fill on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer, setting the Boolean autoDrawBackground property to false, drawing your own background fill, and then setting a fade transition from the normal and hovered states.
The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/06/25/fading-an-item-renderer-background-fill-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_List_itemRenderer_fade_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:List id="lst" itemRenderer="skins.FadingItemRenderer" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout gap="0" horizontalAlign="contentJustify" requestedRowCount="7" /> </s:layout> <s:dataProvider> <s:ArrayList source="[One,Two,Three,Four,Five,Six,Seven,Eight,Nine,Ten]" /> </s:dataProvider> </s:List> </s:Application>
And the custom Spark List item renderer, skins/FadingItemRenderer.mxml, is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/06/25/fading-an-item-renderer-background-fill-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:ItemRenderer name="FadingItemRenderer" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" autoDrawBackground="false"> <s:states> <s:State name="normal" /> <s:State name="hovered" /> <s:State name="selected" /> </s:states> <s:transitions> <s:Transition fromState="normal" toState="hovered" autoReverse="true"> <s:Fade target="{bgRect}" duration="600" /> </s:Transition> </s:transitions> <s:Rect id="bgRect" includeIn="hovered,selected" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"> <s:fill> <s:SolidColor color="{getStyle('rollOverColor')}" color.selected="{getStyle('selectionColor')}" /> </s:fill> </s:Rect> <s:Label id="labelDisplay" left="5" right="5" top="5" bottom="4" /> </s:ItemRenderer>
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This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex 4 SDK.
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.
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