Alex, Thanks for the heads-up. I was on that path as I was looking up what type 'parent' was.
Actually, I couldn't just assume parent would have backgroundColor set. Sometimes it was 2 or 3 parents up the chain where backgroundColor was set. So, I ended up with this: <code> var bgColor:* = undefined; var currentParent:* = this.parent; // This should loop through until it hits the top-most application. // Hopefully this will prevent infinite looping. while(currentParent is IStyleClient) { bgColor = IStyleClient(currentParent).getStyle("backgroundColor"); if (StyleManager.isValidStyleValue(bgColor)) { __labelCanvas.setStyle("backgroundColor", bgColor); break; } else { currentParent = currentParent.parent; } } </code> I typed bgColor as * because if I used uint, it always returned 0 (zero) if getStyle() didn't find anything. This caused isValidStyleValue() to return a false true since 0 is a valid uint value. Thanks for the help, GT --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Parent is of type DisplayObjectContainer which does not have getStyle. > > > > So you have to cast: > > > > (parent as IStyleClient).getStyle("backgroundColor"); > > Or > > IStyleClient(parent).getStyle("backgroundColor"); > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Geoffrey > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:10 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Getting Parent's Style > > > > I'm converting some Flex1.5 code to flex 2.0. One of the classes (a > commonly used custom component) uses the following to set the background > color to that of the parent container: > > > __labelCanvas.setStyle("backgroundColor")=_parent.getStyle("backgroundCo > lor"); > > > This doesn't work in Flex2.0, nor does > parent.getStyle("backgroundColor"); > > How can I get a style attribute of a parent container? > > BTW, I can't just let it be transparent because I need to obscure some > drawn graphic elements of the parent, but I want __labelCanvas to have > the same background color as the parent. Also, the parent might not > always be the same color, else I would set a CSS descriptor for ! it. > > Thanks, > GT >