Define custom renderer for the cell's in question. The renderer gets the data for the entire row and can then compute the background color. I've had trouble actually setting backgroundColor in renderer but binding the backgroundColor to a private var and setting that variable to the color works.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:VBox xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" > <fx:Script> <![CDATA[ public static var PAYOR_COLORS:Object ={"0":0xFE8EB8, "1":0x87F19B, "3":0x9dbffc, "8":0xffff00}; [Bindable] private var bg:int =0xFE8EB8; [Bindable] private var content:String; override public function set data(value:Object):void{ super.data = value var empty:Boolean = (value==null || value.resident__id=="0"); if (yofred!=null) yofred.visible = !empty; bg = PAYOR_COLORS[value.payor]; content = value.name ; //if (color==0) color=0xffffff; } ]]> </fx:Script> <s:Label id="yofred" text="{content}" backgroundColor="{bg}" width="100%" height="30" backgroundAlpha="1.0"/> </mx:VBox> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of isa_loyer Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:08 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 4.5 - Cell background color in datagrid Hi, I load some data with httpservice. In those data, I have a backgound color for each cell. Can you explain how to do to change background color accordind data in dataprovider? I thinks I must use itemrender but I don't found how to use dataprovider data to do that. Thaks for helping.