Comments on: tile or repeat an image into a flex application background

By: creacog

creacog — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:03:06 +0000

@sana: It would help me understand if you detailed the error you are seeing. Alternatively take a look at the updated version of this blog-post which includes a working sample... tile or repeat an image into a flex application background II

By: sana

sana — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:22:18 +0000

good but an error does not resolve at these lines

backgroundImage = new backgroundImageClass();

backgroundBitmapData
= new BitmapData( backgroundImage.width, backgroundImage.height );
backgroundBitmapData.draw( backgroundImage );

By: internet.geek

internet.geek — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:31:55 +0000

Thanks, worked perfectly, one thing to note:

You can then specify the borderSkin property in a css file instead of hardcoding it:

Application
{
borderSkin: ClassReference(‘com.ct.skins.ApplicationBackground’);
}

By: creacog

creacog — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:47:54 +0000

@Diny... use a Loader : http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/display/Loader.html

By: diny

diny — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:27:20 +0000

i would like to load image in my application… how it is possible???

Thanks in advance
Diny

By: Imtiyaz

Imtiyaz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:50:57 +0000

Nice and Useful

By: Maikel Sibbald

Maikel Sibbald — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:22:49 +0000

Funny I had the same approach.

http://labs.flexcoders.nl/?p=16

See sample (view source under contextmenu)

By: creacog

creacog — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:02:53 +0000

Well it is really a hard-coded sticking plaster approach, and so is this answer to your question…
The line which governs the region into which the bitmap is pasted and repeated is this one:
g.drawRect(0,0,w,h);
which currenty represents the whole of the canvas. To effectively repeat-y you could modify the line to:
g.drawRect(0,0,backgroundImage.width,h);
To repeat-x:
g.drawRect(0,0,w,backgroundImage.height);

By: micmac

micmac — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:02:37 +0000

Nice article.
I’m a recent advocate of Flex myself and was disappointed to discover no tiling feature.
I do have one question. How would i go about restricting the tiling to the x-axis? At the moment it is tiling both x and y axis.