Does something like this work for you?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
            import mx.controls.Alert;

            private var alert:Alert;

            private function init():void {
                alert = new Alert();
                alert.width = 500;
                alert.height = 400;
                alert.text = lorem;
                PopUpManager.addPopUp(alert, this);
                PopUpManager.centerPopUp(alert);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:String id="lorem" source="lorem.html" />

    <mx:Button click="init();" />

</mx:Application>

Peter

a.defaultButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, setClick);
private function setClick(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    // my actions...
}

Check out the following styles: modalTransparencyBlur, modalTransparency, modalTransparencyColor, and modalTransparencyDuration.

For more information, and an example, see “Changing a modal Alert control’s blur, transparency and transparency color”.

Hope that helps,
Peter

That makes sense.
Thanks for the info.

I believe the “skin” style is new to Flex 3.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/mx/controls/Button.html#styleSummary (Flex 2.0.1)
http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/langref/mx/controls/Button.html#styleSummary (Flex 3 beta)

In Flex 2 you may need to set the various skin states (disabledSkin, downSkin, overSkin, upSkin, and the various selected*Skin styles) separately.

Sorry for the confusion, I primarily do all these entries in Flex 3 and don’t do much backwards compatibility testing (as you probably discovered).

Peter

The same thing happened when i tried another example from this site.

i’m not sure, but i think it’s the line

skin: ClassReference(null);

that does not work.

any idea?

I’m using the flex sdk 2.0.1 with hotfix 1.

I’d like to be able to use the button class without the standard face so i’d really like this to work.