I feel your pain. Reminds me of this post http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/03/22/setting-a-background-image-on-an-fxapplication-in-flex-gumbo/
Basically requiring a degree in computer science to set a backgroundimage. To me all this Spark stuff was the right move in the wrong direction. 2012/3/23 Williams Farias <will.far...@gmail.com> > Greatings everyone, > > I´d like to know why does Spark skining is so dificult to get a simple > result. > > I´m building now a web application and I need just to skin the ScrollBar. > Ok, in Flex3 i just open my Flash CS5, create a new Symbol and "Export for > actionscript". Then i just add 4 new lines in my CSS style code, and its > done. I have now a simple and 2 minuts made scrollbar. > > But in Spark component... ohhh, what a brutal work i´d had to take... > create a new Style... and put everything on the code... ohhh man, thats a > really waste of time with hundreds of codes lines and without a design > interface to see how it looks like... in my opinion its too much work for > such a little result! > > Just because of that scrollbar man, i had to decide to use Flex 3 insted of > 4!!! A simple and mediocre scrollbar skin! > > I was wondering: how can the most simple thing to do in Flex could be > transformed in a bunch of lines and hard work as that scrolllBar skin? > > If i could propose something to chance in the next releases of Flex, is a > mix of Halo and Spark Skins. I think that Flex3 skinning is much more > simple and intelligent to do. > > Antoher thing that frightened me was to read that Adobe will not update > more the Design View of Flash Builder! Does Apacge group have any > prediction about this? > > Thanks! > > Williams Farias >
