Comments on: popupbutton that opens in all directions

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:53:37 +0000

it breaks the moment you drag the panel off-stage slightly so the scrollbars appear.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:02:18 +0000

Brilliant, thank you Vijay.

That works a treat. I was able to catch the close events using the X button, and clicking the PopUpButton, it was the clicking outside the control I couldn’t get, so the hint to override the .focusOut event was spot on.

Thank you again.

Cheers

Ian

By: Vijay Anand Mareddy

Vijay Anand Mareddy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:42:09 +0000

Ian, try these
1. The TitleWindow ( if showCloseButton=true)dispatches a DropdownEvent.CLOSE event and we need to listen for it and invoke the close() method on subclass of PopUpButtonDirectional

popUpTitleWindow.addEventListener(DropdownEvent.CLOSE,close());

2. override the PopUpButtonDirectional.focusOutHandler

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:15:53 +0000

Sorry Shemesh, that didn’t make a lot of sense did it?

Basically, I have a TitleWindow that slides down with settings the user can change. Is it possible to make the TitleWindow modal using this method?

I.e. once pop-open, do not allow the user to click outside of it to close it and to give the background application the blur effect. This would make the user forced to click a button on the TitleWindow to close it, and then you can force the data they change to be validated before it closes.

I.e. once it slides down, don’t allow the window to close until they click an “OK” button on that TitleWindow. In effect making it act just like an Alert.

Hope that is clearer

Cheers

Ian

By: shemesh

shemesh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:47:17 +0000

Ian,
i don’t really understand what you are trying to do.
a modal alert that come out of a PopUpButton?
these are 2 totally different things and intended for different use cases.
the PopUpButton is intended to use as a “fly-out”.
if you need help, plz elaborate.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:57:30 +0000

Love using the PopUpButton myself.

Is it possible to make the popped up UIComponent so it displays modally like and Alert?

I know you can use PopUpManager, but what a pain

By: slum

slum — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:41:19 +0000

Great post! I’ve been looking all over for something like this.

By: Vijay Anand Mareddy

Vijay Anand Mareddy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:25:53 +0000

Any idea why i would get this error in the constructor of my subclassed version of PopupButtonDirectional:

If i remove this line the error goes away ==> popUp = new Panel();

Error
at mx.managers::SystemManager/updateLastActiveForm()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\SystemManager.as:5087]
at mx.managers::SystemManager/activateForm()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\SystemManager.as:2352]
at mx.managers::SystemManager/activate()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\SystemManager.as:2307]
at mx.managers::FocusManager/creationCompleteHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\FocusManager.as:1592]
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:9298]
at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:1169]
at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:718]
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8628]
at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8568]

By: Vijay Anand Mareddy

Vijay Anand Mareddy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:42:26 +0000

myButton.setStyle(“skin”, null);

Thanks for the tip!

By: shemesh

shemesh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:59:30 +0000

Vijay, tnx.
i suggest you use the button’s skins to do what you want.
you can make your own skin thus making the button look like what needed.