MXD Background Color

Question

I've tried this several ways. Prolly missing something. I want the background color of the MXD to be a certain color other than white. If I set this in the MXD (e.g. frame color) the background in the map service is still white. I've even tried backgroundColor for the Map object but to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks!

RGibson

Drew · Answer

By default, the background is transparent. You can still use PNG if you turn the transparency off:
http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/layers/ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer.html#imageTransparency

That explains why JPG was only working for me... Makes sense  🙂

DasaPaddock · Answer

By default, the background is transparent. You can still use PNG if you turn the transparency off:
http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/layers/ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer.html#imageTransparency

Drew · Answer

Yes, its using a dynamic service.
I did some more testing and I almost thought I was going crazy because it was not working.
It seems to only work when the output format is JPG.

Make sure your layers ImageFormat is set to JPG

Drew