Thanks I will try that. I tend to not explicitly size my popups and let Flex determine the sizing. Is that necessary?
--- In [email protected], "Andrew Spaulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had similar experiences where a popup appears to be shown > behind the application, and by having modal transparency set, you can > see that the popup method is called because the application dims out. > I have also played with popups from an application loaded within > mx:Loader and have also had weird behaviour. > > As a result of these my createPopUp method uses _root as the parent > movie clip, and the reference movieclip for centrePopUp is > mx.core.Application.application ... > > maybe try the following: > > import mx.managers.PopUpManager; > > public function showPopUp( window:Object, vars:Object, h:Number, > w:Number ):Void > { > var popup = PopUpManager.createPopUp( _root, window, true, vars, true ); > popup.width = w; > popup.height = h; > popup.centerPopUp( MovieClip(mx.core.Application.application) ); > } > > > In the above showPopUp method I pass it the popup window, an init > object (if neccessary), and a height and width. > > Try it and see how it goes, > > Andrew Spaulding > www.flexdaddy.com > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Eric Raymond" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The parent of the popup is set to "this". > > > > We pass no arguments to centerPopup. According to the docs this uses > > the parent specified in createPopup. (But I've also tried it with > > "this" to no avail.) > > > > Yes, I understand that it is hard to dig in without a test case. > > Sadly popups work well in some places in my app and not in others. > > > > I was hoping that someone out there had similar problems and had made > > sense out of this. > > > > --- In [email protected], Manish Jethani > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 6/11/05, Eric Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We've been having a number of problems with popup windows doing > > > > strange things. > > > > > > As Alex said, it's hard to say without looking at your code. If you > > > could create a simple test case that shows the problem, that'd be > > > cool. > > > > > > > 1) They popup behind the window which created them. > > > > > > Did you pass 'this' as the first argument to > > > PopUpManager.createPopUp() from the window that created them? You > > > need to specify the parent of the popup window. Make sure you got > > > that right. > > > > > > > 2) They pop up in the upper left even though we asked them to be > > > > centered over their parent via centerPopup(). > > > > > > Again, did you pass 'this' as the argument to centerPopUp() ? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
