Tag Archive for 'centerpopup()'

06
Apr

Centering a pop up window when a Flex application is resized

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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20
Mar

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

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 to display the pop up.

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08
Mar

Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control

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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18
Oct

Using the Image control as a pop up

The following example shows how you can use the PopUpManager class to launch an modal Image control.

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20
Aug

Creating custom dialog boxes using the PopUpManager and TitleWindow classes

Here are a couple examples of using the TitleWindow container with the PopUpManager class to create custom pop-up windows and dialog boxes.

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06
Aug

Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class

The Alert control is great if you need to get a simple confirmation on an action which has a yes/no type answer, but what do you use when you need to prompt a user for their name or something else? JavaScript has a prompt(), and Flex has a very robust PopUpManager class.

This following example will demonstrate how to launch a custom Panel pop-up dialog which includes a Label control, TextInput control, and two Button controls. It also shows how to create a bunch of Flex components and containers using ActionScript instead of MXML.

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