Actually... I like to install Sven¹ with my apps. He is a tall Swedish brute with a club and a pair of brass knuckles... any time the user shouldn¹t do something in the app... Sven is there to enforce the policy. Alternatively, you can set Application.application.enabled=false; and make sure that the disabled transparency¹ value is set to .01 which will prevent everything from turning grey.
Rick Winscot On 8/1/08 9:34 AM, "dbronk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I generally write a simply utility that has a setAppBusy(flag:Boolean) > function. When true I set the application mouseChildren=false and > then do CursorManager.setBusyCursor(). I actually hate the popup/hide > my data/grey the screen approaches. The only gotcha I came across > with this was that setting mouseChildren=false does not include popups > so I had to also create a register/deregister on the util so that when > popups are launched they register so that the mouseChildren on them > can be set to false and deregister on close. > > Very simply, clean, and no popups every time a server call is made. > Now for calls that are known to be long running, like downloads of > files, then the popup may make sense to let the user know what's going on. > > Dale > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , > "wwwpl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I want to block user interaction while I am waiting for an http service >> > to return with data. Is there a nice easy way to do this? >> > > > >
