Thanks for all your useful examples.
I needed to disable the Escape key, as you mention above, so that the user cannot close the alert until I’m ready. I added this line in your loop for disabling the buttons:

btn.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, alertKeyDownHandler, false, 100); // High priority so we can stop propagation


and added this handler function:

private function alertKeyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
event.stopImmediatePropagation();
}

If at some point you want to give the user back the ability to escape, calling removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, alertKeyDownHandler) restores normal functionality.

Best,
Micah

xo

See: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/08_Dates_and_times_4.html#122960

I agree. I’ll update the article and show how you can loop over the mx_internal button array and disable just the buttons. It seems you can still dismiss the Alert control immediately using the Escape key, but I can try and look into that later.

Peter

Would be better if just the button was disabled, rather than the whole alert, makes the Alert hard to read.