The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex Alert control is closed by listening for the close event by specifying the closeHandler parameter in the static Alert.show() method.
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The following example shows how you can create a Flex Alert control that isn’t draggable by listening for the mouseDown event and calling the stopImmediatePropagation() method in the event handler.
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The following example shows how you can style a Flex Alert control using the static StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration() method, and the setStyle() method.
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The following example shows how you can add a GlowFilter to a Flex Alert control by setting the filters property on the Alert object reference returned by the static Alert.show() method.
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the status message in an Alert control in Flex by setting the statusStyleName style and status property.
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the buttons in an Alert control in Flex by setting the buttonStyleName style.
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the message text in an Alert control in Flex by setting the messageStyleName style:
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the title in an Alert control in Flex by setting the titleStyleName style:
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The following example shows how you can customize the background alpha and background color of a Flex Alert control by setting the backgroundAlpha, backgroundColor, borderAlpha, and borderColor styles.
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The following example shows how you can use the Alert.NONMODAL constant to toggle whether a Flex Alert control is modal or non-modal.
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The following example shows how you can set and style a status message in a Flex Alert control by simply setting the status property (and statusStyleName style if you want to style the status message).
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The following example shows how you can set both the titleIcon property and iconClass property for a Flex Alert control.
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The following example shows how you can close an Alert control by calling the PopUpManager class’s removePopUp() method.
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The topic of setting modal styles came up again today so I thought I’d re-share this tip (I previously covered controlling modal styles for the Alert control in an earlier post, “Changing a modal Alert control’s blur, transparency and transparency color”).
The following example shows how you can set the various modal styles (modalTransparencyBlur, modalTransparency, modalTransparencyColor, and modalTransparencyDuration) on the global selector so it propogates to both the Alert control and pop-ups created using the PopUpManager.
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