Creating a self-closing Alert control in Flex

By Peter deHaan 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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Closing a pop up window using the keyboard in Flex

By Peter deHaan 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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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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Detecting when a mouse leaves a Flex application

By Peter deHaan 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 Peter deHaan 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 Peter deHaan 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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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.

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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.

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