How to create an overlay in advanced grid in Flex

Question

I'd like to know how to create an "overlay" in Flex's Advanced Grid? See the sample here

http://tinypic.com/r/4ieccm/4

Answer 1

For a datagrid you can override the DrawRowBackground method of the datagrid to do custom backgrounds. I assume there would be something similar to that for the advanceddatagrid.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/DataGrid.html#drawRowBackground%28%29