One more suggestion to try. You can listen for the childAdd event on the TitleWindow. Then, in the event handler, play the effect on the Canvas.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joan Lafferty Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:06 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: addChild & creationCompleteEffect Maybe try your effect on the showEffect rather than the creationCompleteEffect? I haven't tried this to see if it works... just a suggestion. Joan ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of johantrax Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:16 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: addChild & creationCompleteEffect Nobody with any tips? :( --Johan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "johantrax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I create a TitleWindow with the PopupManager. The titlewindow should > dynamically contain a canvas. > So how did I do that. I gave the titlewindow a property called > 'contentForm' which contains a canvas. Then in the > creationComplete-event of the titlewindow, addChild(contentForm) is > called for adding the canvas to the titlewindow. > So far, so good... > > Next I wanted to create some popup/popout effect on the titlewindow. > So I set creationCompleteEffect to 'popup', a mx:Parallel of > zoom/move/fade. I also set the removedEffect to 'popout', a mx:Sequence. > > What's the problem? The 'popup'-effect should move the titlewindow > from the top to the center of the application. I figured this move-tag > would give me what needed: > <mx:Move > yFrom="{-this.height}" yTo="{(Application.application.height - > this.height) / 2}" > xFrom="{Application.application.width / 2}" > xTo="{(Application.application.width - this.width) / 2}" > /> > However, this isn't working as expected. > The only logical explanation I can come up with is the following: > creationComplete and creationCompleteEffect both get executed when the > creationcomplete-Event is fired. Since the childComponent is only > added during the handling of that event, the effect playing is not yet > aware of the change in size. > > This lead me into the FlexDocs, where I learned that adding children > should be part of the initialisationEvent. > So I assigned my init()method to the initialize-listener instead of > creationComplete. > However, this is giving me the following errors: > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null > object reference. > at mx.containers::Panel/::showTitleBar() > at mx.containers::Panel/mx.containers:Panel::layoutChrome() > at mx.core::Container/mx.core:Container::updateDisplayList() > ... > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null > object reference. > at components::PopupFormWindow/::init() > at components::PopupFormWindow/___TitleWindow1_initialize() > at > flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven tFunction() > ... > > My init-method is as follows: > private function init():void { > //create inner form > contentForm.currentState = this.currentState; > (contentForm as customerPopupForm).ac = this.ac; > this.addChild(contentForm); > } > > Any help, push in the right direction is really appreciated. I will > provide the full errormsgs/more code if needed, but I consider this to > be a long post already ;) > --Johan >
