Printing a graphic with a gradient mask in Flex 3-problem

Question

Hello, I am fairly new to flex development. I am puting together a little program that allows the user to upload a picture add a vignette mask in order to achieve a soft edge,  and have a problem I cannot  find an answer anywhere, maybe someone could help me please.
I want  to print a the user photo with a gradient mask or vignette from flex. I managed  to show the image correctly on screeen with the gradient mask using  this class but the output to paper is a rectangle without the soft mask.
//package to add the mask for display
package com.dm.graphics
   import flash.display.Graphics;
   import mx.containers.Canvas;
   import flash.display.GradientType;
   public class FrameBorderSoft extends Canvas
      override protected function updateDisplayList(w:Number, h:Number):void
         super.updateDisplayList(w,h);
         var g:Graphics = this.graphics;
         g.clear();
         g.beginGradientFill(GradientType.RADIAL, [0x000000, 0x000000, 0x000000, 0x000000],
         [1,1,0.8,0],
         [1,128,195,255],
         horizontalGradientMatrix(0,0,w,h) );
         g.drawRect(0,0,w,h);
         g.endFill();
It  works beautifully until I try to print the graphic. The image prints  but without the gradient edges (soft) instead it is just a sharp edge  rectangle.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Here is my print function:
private function doPrint():void {
                // Create an instance of the FlexPrintJob class.
                var myPrintJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
                // Start the print job.
                if (myPrintJob.start() != true) return;
                // Add the object to print. Do not scale it.
                if (tabnavigator1.selectedChild == img1) {
           //switchcolor is a variable to detect if the user changed the background to white or clear.       
                         switchcolor = 100;
                      //printCF is the card front container with the photo masked
                   myPrintJob.addObject(printCF, FlexPrintJobScaleType.NONE);
                   myPrintJob.printAsBitmap = false;        
                } else if (tabnavigator1.selectedChild == img1b) {
                   switchcolor = 100;
                   myPrintJob.addObject(printCB, FlexPrintJobScaleType.NONE);
I hope this helps to visualize,
I would greatly appreciate any assistance or advise.

Answer 1

Hello, back on my issue, i tested a little bit more the message dispaching.
I read the lazyLoadPolicy class and noticed that it always has to have a ModuleId property in the message to work, that's why the broadcast message didn't work to awake the module with the lazy loading policy.
So i added copy of my module:
     <cairngorm:ParsleyModuleDescriptor objectId="test"
          url="TestModule.swf"
          applicationDomain="{ClassInfo.currentDomain}"
     />
     <cairngorm:ParsleyModuleDescriptor objectId="testbis"
          url="TestModuleBis.swf"
          applicationDomain="{ClassInfo.currentDomain}"
     />     
Set them both with a basicLoadPolicy, and tries to dispatch a message to only one of them using the ModuleId metatag. I then noticed that both modules received the message and not only the one i expected.
I then changed the ModuleMessageInterceptor configuration to dispatch to only one kind of module:
<cairngorm:ModuleMessageInterceptor type="{ OpenViewMessage }" moduleRef="test"/>
and this worked as expected. Only the first module catched the message. I am obiously messing with the ModuleId metatag but i cannot see what's wrong...
I compiled with
-keep-as3-metadata+=ModuleId
but this hasn't changed anything...