Sure. All I was saying with the z-indexes is that it makes sense to stick to some conventions when implementing different beads/managers so they play nicely with each other.
> On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:41 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > > Royale offers choices. For PAYG reasons we probably wouldn't want to > implement only the "ultimate floating window manager". There are different > strategies as to what goes on top and when (on mouseDown or mouseUp). Modal > dialogs can have popups and float stuff over them if they want. > > My 2 cents, > -Alex > > On 1/15/19, 10:13 PM, "Harbs" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Floating windows could probably be handled pretty easily by changing the > z-index on each of the popups (in HTML). > > Of course you’d need a manager to handle that, but it shouldn’t be too > hard to implement. > > That would probably be either a FloatingWindowManager singleton or > FloatingWindowUtils static class. > > We probably want to standardize on different number ranges of z-index for > different “classes” of floating things. > > I imagine modal dialogs would have the highest z-index. The possible > exception to that would be popup menus. Floating windows somewhat lower than > modal dialogs, etc. > >> On Jan 16, 2019, at 2:39 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 1/15/19, 2:48 PM, "Carlos Rovira" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Support for "overlapping windows" would be PAYG and added via some other >>> classes. I don't think we've done anything there at the Basic level, the >>> emulation components may have to support it since Flex did. >>> >> >> What do you mean with "overlapping windows". Don't understand that concept. >> For me windows are always one on top of another... >> >> Oh yeah, forgot to describe that. "overlapping windows" means that two or >> more popups can be visible and potentially overlap each other based on which >> one was clicked on last. In some IDEs you can have all of these floating >> panels. Spell-check and Find dialogs are other examples where they can be >> popped up and not dismissed while some other popup or dropdown shows up and >> has to show up above or under the floating Spell-Check or Find dialog. >> >> Flex had a whole ActiveWindowManager that worked with the PopUpManager. >> Royale should try to make support for floating dialogs PAYG. >> >> Thanks, >> -Alex >> > > >
