Displaying a popup Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4

By On October 23, 2009 · 25 Comments

The following example shows how you can display a popup Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4 by using the static PopUpManager.addPopUp(), PopUpManager.createPopUp(), and PopUpManager.centerPopUp() methods.

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Creating a self-closing Alert control in Flex

By On April 8, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a self-closing Flex Alert control by creating a timer and using the static PopUpManager.removePopUp() method to remove the Alert after a certain time period.

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Creating an undraggable TitleWindow container in Flex

By On August 16, 2008 · 8 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating an undraggable Alert control in Flex”, we saw how you could create a Flex Alert control that isn’t draggable by listening for the mouseDown event and calling the stopImmediatePropagation() method in the event handler.

The following examples show how you can create an undraggable TitleWindow container by setting the [...]

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Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control (redux)

By On August 6, 2008 · 25 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, we saw how to create a simple image gallery using the HorizontalList control and Image control in Flex.

The following example shows how you can change the full image whenever you roll your mouse cursor over the items in the [...]

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Closing a pop up window using the keyboard in Flex

By On August 4, 2008 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can close a pop up window when a user presses the Escape key in Flex.

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Displaying a video in a pop up window in Flex

By On August 4, 2008 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the PopUpManager class to display a VideoDisplay control in a TitleWindow container in Flex.

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Centering a pop up window when a Flex application is resized

By On April 6, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can center a pop up window (in this case an Alert control) when the Flex application is resized by using the resize event on the <mx:Application /> tag and using the static PopUpManager.centerPopUp() method.

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Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class (redux)

By On March 20, 2008 · 43 Comments

In a previous example, “Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class”, we saw how you could use ActionScript to create pop up windows using the PopUpManager class in Flex.

In the following example we see how you can create a custom MXML component and pass the class name to the static PopUpManager.createPopUp() method [...]

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Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control

By On March 8, 2008 · 92 Comments

Similar to a previous example, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, the following example shows how you can create a simple photo gallery in Flex using the TileList control, Image control, and the PopUpManager class.

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Detecting when a mouse leaves a Flex application

By On February 22, 2008 · 14 Comments

The following example shows how you can detect when the mouse leaves the bounds of a Flex application by listening for the stage object’s mouseLeave event.

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Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex (redux)

By On January 27, 2008 · 5 Comments

We’ve already seen how to get a TextInput control to display its text as a masked password field before in an earlier example, “Displaying a TextInput control’s text as a password in Flex” by setting the displayAsPassword property to true.
The following example will show you how you can listen for the focusIn [...]

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Programmatically removing an Alert using the PopUpManager

By On October 22, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can close an Alert control by calling the PopUpManager class’s removePopUp() method.

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