Re: Is a transparent panel possible?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:38:53 GMT

My understanding is that the Extension panel sits inside a container over which you have no control of the opacity. Therefore, even if you make the panel transparent, you would only see the container behind it, not the image or application that it sits over.

Is a transparent panel possible?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:42:39 GMT

I have FlashBuilder 4.6, CS Extension Builder 2 plugin and CS 5.5 suite. I have created a couple of simple extensions, played around with CSAW APIs and things are fine.

I want my extension's UI to be transparent (at least the content portion of it, if not the header with the close button and title). Since the UI is a Flex app (swf), I am under the impression that transparency can somehow be pulled off. A couple of things I tried:

1. Flex app transparency techniques, like the one mentioned here - http://www.nickkuh.com/flash-flex-air/transparency-for-flex-4spark-applications/2009/08/

However, such techniques require spark components and skinning them. I could not include spark libraries in the extension app. When I go to build path for the project, the component sets MX+Spark and Spark are greyed out. Only 'MX' is pre-selected.

2. Making the base mx:Application transparent. I find that there is no backgroundAlpha property for mx:Application and am not sure if skins and such can be applied to mx components.

So, my questions are:

1. Is it possible to apply transparency to the extension UI (panel/modal-dialog/whichever-windowtype-where-this-is-possible) in any way? If possible, could you please provide some details?

2. Is it possible to create a regular Flex project (not using CSEB), generate a swf out of it and then use that as extension swf? In that case, can I make the spark app transparent and use it as the extension UI? Has anyone tried this approach?

Thanks,

Deepak.

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Is a transparent panel possible?