There are two variations to my question, but they should share a common solution:
1) I want to create a "glass pane" - ie, a transparent layer that can capture/consume mouse events without allowing the event to bubble to a component below it. I've tried to achieve this effect with a transparent Canvas, but the component below it (eg, a TextArea), also catches the event. 2) I have a floating toolbar that extends Canvas. I don't want to use the PopUpManager because of issues with the FocusManager and TextArea that causes text to be selected incorrectly when focus is returned after focus was transferred to a toolbar button. If the toolbar is floating above the TextArea component, the cursor changes to an ibeam. If I click down on the toolbar to drag it, the toolbar drags, but the TextArea also gets the events, causing text to become selected. I want the toolbar to consume the mouse events occurring on it without any further event bubbling. Since the toolbar has a mouseMove handler that allows me to drag it, I can drag even by pressing mouse down on a toolbar button. I guess the toolbar as parent is receiving and handling the mousedown, even though the mouse down event is also propagating to its child button component as well (I actually do not want this behavior either, but I suppose I can solve this easily enough with hitTest). But what is really interesting is that the event stops there if it's caught by the button -- the TextArea below the toolbar doesn't get the event in this case. So something about a Button or its superclasses makes it special, but the difference isn't apparent to me in the AS source provided with Flex. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks! -Tony tony pujals| senior engineer | Yahoo! SiteBuilder Express p. 408.349.6284 | e. tonyp * yahoo-inc . com | y!id tonypujals -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
