Hi Steve,
Popups exist outside the normal DisplayList, so you can work around it
by setting the Alert's parent like this:
Alert.show("your text", "your title", 4, parentApplication as Sprite);
-TH
--- In [email protected], "steveb805" <quantumcheese...@...>
wrote:
>
> Seems like until now, my Alert boxes appear in the center ok.
>
> However, now that I am using a PopUpButton, and in response to one of
the menu item clicks I am calling Alert.show(), the popup box is stuck
at the upper left.
>
> My popupbutton handler:
>
> private function itemClickHandler(event:MenuEvent):void {
> switch (event.index) {
> case 0:
> ...
> case 1:
> Alert.show( "Are you sure? \n\n There is no Un-Do",
> 'Delete *All Completed* ?',
> Alert.YES| Alert.NO,
> null,
> responseToDeleteAllCompletedHandler,
> null,
> Alert.NO);
> default:
> }
> }
>
>
> For the parent parameter - which is supposed to be a Sprite - I tried
this.parent, hoping this would fix it, but complained of type mismatch.
>
> Weird that the Alert works fine when calling it in response to normal
buttons on my main panel, but all of a sudden the Alert is confused
about the parent when calling the Alert.show in response to a *popup*
type button.
>
> ( maybe I should download an updated Flex sdk? it's been a couple of
months)
>
> Any advice would help
> tx,
> Steve
>
