Thanks Alex, much appreciated! -Greg
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > The Application and all popups are parented by the SystemManager. The > SystemManager divides its children into four childlists (application, popup, > tooltip, cursor). The Application childlist is the lowest so that children > in the popup childlist float over them, tooltips float over the application > and popups and cursors float over everything. The popup children probably > should’ve been called “floating” or something like that. > > The PopUpManager always adds a popup over all the other children currently > in the childlist specified in addPopUp/createPopUp, so depending on the > order and childlist specified, you can get different things at different > levels. > > I suspect you want the top level popup to go in the popup childlist > > > > On 5/11/10 12:52 PM, "Greg Hess" <flexeff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Alex, > > No, I was not specifying the childList and never understood the implication > of using that argument. > > I updated my code however, same result. > > My top level popup, or the one I want on top specifies the parent as the > main application and uses APPLICATION childList arg. My small "middle layer" > popup specifies the module as the parent and specifies PARENT as the > childList however, when the middle layer popup displayes on top of the top > level popup. > > Should this be working or am I still missing something? > > Not sure if it makes a difference, but the actual code for displaying the > popups is in the main application and it is being called from the module. > > Thanks, > > Greg > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Are you using the childLIst parameter of PopUpManager? > > > > On 5/10/10 11:30 AM, "Greg Hess" <flexeff...@gmail.com < > http://flexeff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi All, > > My application employs a modular architecture(main applications > responsibility is just to load and unload modules). My module displays a > popup window who's parent is the main application that covers the entire UI. > Unfortunately, while this popup is displayed certain events occur in the > module that it handles by displaying some small notification popups over UI > components that are hidden by the big popup window, however the notification > popups layer over the big popup. > > In reading the PopupManager docs I thought by simply assigning the module > as the parent of my notification popups would resolve the issue by adding > the popups to the module "layer" and not the top "application layer", but it > is not working and I am not sure if this is supported with the parent > argument to addPopUp or I am doing something wrong. > > Does anyone know how I can show popups in different layers per say? > > Any help much appreciated. > > Greg > > > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe System, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > >
