In a previous example, “Creating a non-draggable Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4″, we saw how you could create a non-draggable Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4 by listening for the windowMoving event and calling the stopImmediatePropagation() and preventDefault() methods (or modify the moveArea skin part’s Boolean visible property).

The following example shows how you can limit the Spark TitleBar container’s movement to a single axis by modifying the TitleWindowBoundsEvent object’s afterBounds object using the windowMoving event.

Full code after the jump.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/01/20/restricting-the-movement-of-a-pop-up-spark-titlewindow-container-to-a-single-axis-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_TitleWindow_windowMoving_afterBounds_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
    <s:controlBarContent>
        <s:Button id="btn"
                label="Launch TitleWindow"
                click="btn_clickHandler(event);" />
    </s:controlBarContent>
 
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.core.UIComponent;
            import mx.events.CloseEvent;
            import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
            import spark.events.TitleWindowBoundsEvent;
 
            protected function titleWin_closeHandler(evt:CloseEvent):void {
                PopUpManager.removePopUp(evt.currentTarget as UIComponent);
            }
 
            protected function btn_clickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                PopUpManager.addPopUp(titleWin, this, true);
                PopUpManager.centerPopUp(titleWin);
            }
 
            protected function titleWin_windowMovingHandler(evt:TitleWindowBoundsEvent):void {
                evt.afterBounds.x = evt.beforeBounds.x;
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
 
    <fx:Declarations>
        <s:TitleWindow id="titleWin"
                title="Spark TitleWindow"
                width="300"
                close="titleWin_closeHandler(event);"
                windowMoving="titleWin_windowMovingHandler(event);">
            <s:layout>
                <s:VerticalLayout paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10"
                        paddingTop="10" paddingBottom="10" />
            </s:layout>
            <s:Label text="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
                    fontSize="24"
                    width="100%"/>
        </s:TitleWindow>
    </fx:Declarations>
 
</s:Application>

This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex 4 SDK.

 
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Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

4 Responses to Restricting the movement of a pop up Spark TitleWindow container to a single axis in Flex 4

  1. Idemax says:

    what SDK version did you use?

    I’m using 4.0.0.10434 version and don’t have Spark TitleWindow component.

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