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Seamless Background

Here is way to get seamless background for your websites or flex apps.

package{
     public class SeamlessBackgroundTest extends Sprite
     {
       [Embed (source="../assets/scanline.png")]
       private var Pattern:Class;
       public function SeamlessBackgroundTest()  {
 
         super();
         var pattern:Sprite=new Sprite();
         this.addChild(pattern);

         var bg:BitmapAsset=new Pattern() as BitmapAsset;
         pattern.graphics.beginBitmapFill(b.bitmapData,
                                        null,true,true);
         pattern.graphics.moveTo(0,0);
         pattern.graphics.lineTo(0,this.stage.stageHeight);         

         pattern.graphics.lineTo(this.stage.stageWidth,
                                  this.stage.stageHeight);
         pattern.graphics.lineTo(this.stage.stageWidth,0);
         pattern.graphics.lineTo(0,0);
         pattern.graphics.endFill();
              
      }

  }
}

Stage Eventlistener

If your using a stage resize eventlistener make sure you have this line of code

stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;

without this the function call to the resize method will not get called.

public function SeamlessBackgroundTest(){
    stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
    stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
    stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE,onStageResize);     
}


private function onStageResize(evt:Event):void{
     trace("onResize");
}

BitmapAsset Class

If your using an embeded image in your project

[Embed (source="../assets/scanline.png")]
private var Pattern:Class;


You can use the BitmapAsset Class to add the image.

var b:BitmapAsset=new Pattern() as BitmapAsset;

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The Undocumented SWF Tag

If your working with Flex Builder 2 and trying to set the default swf size for the project there are two ways to do it.

1) Use the Swf Tag

[SWF(width=”800″, height=”600″)]
public class Carousel extends Sprite

2) Goto the Actionscript compiler options and you can add optional params for the mxmlc
compiler there.