Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows
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
Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows
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 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
Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows
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
Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows
Are you using the childLIst parameter of PopUpManager? On 5/10/10 11:30 AM, Greg Hess 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
