[osflash] Flex: transparent objects

[Glen Pike]

Hi,

    backgroundAlpha should be the property:

    These 2 tools are really useful for components:

    The component explorer lets you see all the components in Flex and 
see the MXML to create them:
    http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/

    The style explorer lets you play with the styling properties of each 
component, then you can copy the css out and paste it into your 
application stylesheet:
    
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

    "Getting started" is really useful:
    http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Getting+Started

    If you want to look at older versions, you may have to navigate from 
the devnet site - not sure where they are anymore - but this site is 
useful in itself:
    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

    http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/


    I am always looking in the API reference then the developers guide 
if I get stuck, but the developers guide is so goddam slow, I get fed up 
of waiting for it to load half the time - this happens if you click on 
"view the examples" in the API docs (maybe oneday Adobe will do some 
nice javascript communication between the API docs and my already open 
tab with the developer reference in so I don't have to keep loading up a 
new page...).

    Also, Flex Builder has contextual help - you can hover over a bit of 
MXML and get help on it - hold down CTRL, hover over the variable / type 
you are interested in (it shows up like a hyperlink).  Clicking on 
"types" will take you to source files, pressing F1 brings up contextual 
help in the side panel.  Smooth.

    HTH

    Glen

Alvise Nicoletti wrote:
> Hi guys... probably that's not the right mailing list, but I'm starting 
> to try Flex and I'm really amazed...
>
> The only  thing that actually I'm not able to do is to set items ad 
> transparent, in this case a TABNAVIGATOR.
> It's white and the background image is covered.
>
> What can I do?
>
> And... to don't fuss you anymore, wich manual and documentation do you 
> use to understand the properties and so on?
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Glen Pike
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