Background images in HBoxes and VBoxes

[doctorshake]

I've been building a page in mxml and wanted to include a background images for the components of some of the mx:HBox and mx:VBox elements I'm using. Looking around online it seems that a property 'backgroundImage' would be what I would need to set however I keep getting errors that no such property exists. Is this something that has changed in Flex 4 or am I missing something?

Thanks for any help.

[RobotMonkey · Accepted solution]

To create a background for an HBox you could do something like this:

<s:VGroup width="200" height="400" >

     <s:BorderContainer width="100%" height="100%" backgroundImage="{someEmbededImage}" >

          <mx:HBox width="100%" height="100%" >

               <!-- Put HBox items in here -->

          </mx:HBox>

     </s:BorderContainer>

</s:VGroup>