spark.components.gridClasses

# IGridVisualElement - AS3 Flex

Package | spark.components.gridClasses
Interface | public interface IGridVisualElement

Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0

Product Version: | Flex 4.5

Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 10, AIR 2.0

This interface provides a method that dynamically created visual elements can use to configure themselves before they're displayed. It's called as needed when a factory generated visual element is created or reused. It is not intended to be called directly.

This is an optional interface for all of the factory-generated visual elements except itemRenderers: `caretIndicator`, `hoverIndicator`, `editorIndicator`, `selectionIndicator`, `columnSeparator`, `rowSeparator`, `alternatingRowColorsBackground` (see DataGrid), `sortIndicator` (see GridColumnHeaderGroup). It's typically used to configure generated visual elements with DataGrid's style values. For example, to use the value of the DataGrid's "symbolColor" style for the caret's fill color, one would define the `prepareGridVisualElement()` method like this:

      public function prepareGridVisualElement(grid:Grid, rowIndex:int, columnIndex:int):void
      {
          caretStroke.color = grid.dataGrid.getStyle("caretColor");
      }

The `rowIndex` and `columnIndex` parameters specify the the cell the visual element will occupy. If `columnIndex` = -1 then the visual element occupies a Grid row. If `rowIndex` = -1 then the visual element occupies a Grid column.

There are many more examples like this in DataGridSkin.mxml. Note that custom DataGrid skin visual elements can choose not to implement this interface if the the added flexibility isn't needed.

Public Methods

| Method | Defined By
--- | --- | ---
|  | prepareGridVisualElement(grid:Grid, rowIndex:int, columnIndex:int):void This method is called before a visual element of the Grid is rendered to give the element a chance to configure itself. | IGridVisualElement

Method Detail

### prepareGridVisualElement

()
method

`public function prepareGridVisualElement(grid:Grid, rowIndex:int, columnIndex:int):void`

Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0

Product Version: | Flex 4.5

Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 10, AIR 2.0

This method is called before a visual element of the Grid is rendered to give the element a chance to configure itself. The method's parameters specify what cell, or row (if columnIndex = -1), or column (if rowIndex = -1) the visual element will occupy.

If the visual element is generated by a factory valued DataGrid skin part, like selectionIndicator or hoverIndicator, then `grid.dataGrid` will be the DataGrid for which grid is a skin part.

Parameters

| `grid:Grid` — The Grid associated with this visual element.
| `rowIndex:int` — The row coordinate of the cell the visual element will occupy, or -1
| `columnIndex:int` — The column coordinate of the cell the visual element will occupy, or -1

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