Displaying a popup Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan 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.

Full code after the jump.

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Centering a pop up window when a Flex application is resized

By Peter deHaan 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 Peter deHaan 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 Peter deHaan 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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Using the Image control as a pop up

By Peter deHaan On October 18, 2007 · 9 Comments

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

 

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Creating custom dialog boxes using the PopUpManager and TitleWindow classes

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 21 Comments

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

Full code after the jump.

 

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Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class

By Peter deHaan On August 6, 2007 · 30 Comments

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 [...]

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