ColorBackground | API Reference | ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.31

This type of Background allows to set a Color as the background of a SceneView. The view environment stars and atmosphere will show on top of the background when enabled. To have a clear background color only, make sure to set both the view.environment.starsEnabled and view.environment.atmosphereEnabled properties to false.

The default for ColorBackground is a fully opaque, black color. The example below shows how to change this:

background-color

const view = new SceneView({
  container: "view",
  map: map,
  environment: {
    background: {
      type: "color",
      color: [255, 252, 244, 1]
    },
    starsEnabled: false,
    atmosphereEnabled: false
  }
});

Set alphaCompositingEnabled to true when you want to make the SceneView background partially or fully transparent and blend with the rest of the webpage.

const view = new SceneView({
  container: "view",
  map: map,
  alphaCompositingEnabled: true,
  environment: {
    background: {
      type: "color",
      color: [255, 252, 244, 0.4]
    },
    starsEnabled: false,
    atmosphereEnabled: false
  }
});

See also

Constructors

ColorBackground Constructor new ColorBackground(properties)

Parameter

properties Object

optional

See the properties for a list of all the properties that may be passed into the constructor.

Property Overview

Any properties can be set, retrieved or listened to. See the Watch for changes topic.

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Name	Type	Summary	Class
	Color	The color of the background.	ColorBackground
	String	The name of the class.	Accessor

Property Details

color Property color Colorautocast Autocasts from Object|Number []|String

The color of the background. This can be autocast with an array of rgb(a) values, named string, hex string or an hsl(a) string, an object with r, g, b, and a properties, or a Color object.

Default Value:"black"

declaredClass Inherited Property declaredClass Stringreadonly Inherited from Accessor

The name of the class. The declared class name is formatted as esri.folder.className.

Method Overview

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Return Type	Summary	Class
	Adds one or more handles which are to be tied to the lifecycle of the object.	Accessor
ColorBackground	Creates a deep clone of the object.	ColorBackground
*	Creates a new instance of this class and initializes it with values from a JSON object generated from an ArcGIS product.	ColorBackground
Boolean	Returns true if a named group of handles exist.	Accessor
	Removes a group of handles owned by the object.	Accessor
Object	Converts an instance of this class to its ArcGIS portal JSON representation.	ColorBackground

Method Details

addHandles Inherited Method addHandles(handleOrHandles, groupKey) Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, addHandles added at 4.25.

Adds one or more handles which are to be tied to the lifecycle of the object. The handles will be removed when the object is destroyed.

// Manually manage handles
const handle = reactiveUtils.when(
  () => !view.updating,
  () => {
    wkidSelect.disabled = false;
  },
  { once: true }
);

this.addHandles(handle);

// Destroy the object
this.destroy();

Parameters

handleOrHandles WatchHandle|WatchHandle []

Handles marked for removal once the object is destroyed.

groupKey *

optional

Key identifying the group to which the handles should be added. All the handles in the group can later be removed with Accessor.removeHandles(). If no key is provided the handles are added to a default group.

clone Method clone(){ColorBackground}

Creates a deep clone of the object.

Returns

Type	Description
ColorBackground	A deep clone of the object that invoked this method.

fromJSON Method fromJSON(json){*}static

Creates a new instance of this class and initializes it with values from a JSON object generated from an ArcGIS product. The object passed into the input json parameter often comes from a response to a query operation in the REST API or a toJSON() method from another ArcGIS product. See the Using fromJSON() topic in the Guide for details and examples of when and how to use this function.

Parameter

json Object

A JSON representation of the instance in the ArcGIS format. See the ArcGIS REST API documentation for examples of the structure of various input JSON objects.

Returns

Type	Description
*	Returns a new instance of this class.

hasHandles Inherited Method hasHandles(groupKey){Boolean} Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, hasHandles added at 4.25.

Returns true if a named group of handles exist.

Parameter

groupKey *

optional

A group key.

Returns

Type	Description
Boolean	Returns `true` if a named group of handles exist.

Example

// Remove a named group of handles if they exist.
if (obj.hasHandles("watch-view-updates")) {
  obj.removeHandles("watch-view-updates");
}

removeHandles Inherited Method removeHandles(groupKey) Inherited from Accessor Since: ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 4.25 Accessor since 4.0, removeHandles added at 4.25.

Removes a group of handles owned by the object.

Parameter

groupKey *

optional

A group key or an array or collection of group keys to remove.

Example

obj.removeHandles(); // removes handles from default group

obj.removeHandles("handle-group");
obj.removeHandles("other-handle-group");

toJSON Method toJSON(){Object}

Converts an instance of this class to its ArcGIS portal JSON representation. See the Using fromJSON() guide topic for more information.

Returns

Type	Description
Object	The ArcGIS portal JSON representation of an instance of this class.