Adding styles to custom as3 components

[ddgasdgr]

I understand how to add styles to custom components in Flex but can anyone shed
light on the correct way to define a background image style in the class
constructor? i.e what is the correct "type" for a backgroundImage:

[Style(name="backgroundImage", type="????", inherit="no")]

thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

[Bryan Dresselhaus]

If your custom component is a UIComponent, you can use the
setStyle(styleProp:String, newValue:*):void method. You can override the
protected method childrenCreated():void or commitProperties():void. If you
have a lot of properties to style, you may want to use a css file and set the
styleName property of the UIComponent to a preset style.

In this case, if you have a background image, just do:




protected override function childrenCreated():void {
super.childrenCreated();
this.setStyle("backgroundImage", image variable or path string);
}