Paul, if you would be willing to share the screen shot of your app that you showed me, I think most would agree that the popup subsystem in Flex was designed exactly for what you want to do, and not a hack. I hope those that vote for your bug describe their scenarios that require it. Maybe the more critical feature Flex needs is an easier way to popup modules. Until we see other scenarios that require distinct tabloops that aren't MDI oriented, I don't think this issue will get sufficient priority to be addressed.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FocusManager fun... Tab Loops redux Yes, Alex has been very generous with his time offline, and I will be trying his popup approach. However I believe the popup solution is a hack in the perjorative sense. I believe that the flex language should allow at a minimum the ability to define a separate tab loop for each module. Paul --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Paul and I have discussed off line. He's got a bunch of module panels that we > wants to overlap and drag around the screen and have tabbing stay within > which ever panel was clicked in and moved on top of the others. Flex has all > of this built-in. Once he gets his modules popped up, he should be all set. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of jim.abbott45 > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 3:21 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FocusManager fun... Tab Loops redux > > > Feeling less than ecstatic? Then please VOTE for fixing of bug #16897. > > See: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16897 > > --Jim > > > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > "aceoohay" <pauls@> wrote: > > > > Alex: > > > > Neither of these options are practical in the real world (at least my > > world) since we have over 135 modules currently, and up to 10 can be loaded > > at any one time. We cannot have the cursor willy nilly hopping from module > > to module going to panels that are partially obscured by other panels, etc. > > > > Does the mx.managers.FocusManager allow the ability to establish multiple > > tab loops within a single application? > > > > If so, how can this be used to define a tab loop for a single container? > > > > If not, is there anything that will allow defining a tab loop for a > > container?! With multiple tab loops available on the stage at one time. The > > user can use the mouse to jump from module to module. > > > > Paul > > > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: > > > > > > Setting tabEnabled on anything you don't want to have focus is one > > > answer. So is non-modal popups. > > > > > > Alex Harui > > > Flex SDK Developer > > > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] > > > On Behalf Of aceoohay > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:00 AM > > > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: FocusManager fun... Tab Loops redux > > > > > > > > > Alex: > > > > > > Let me restate my primary question; > > > > > &! gt; "...has anyone else tried to create a flex component with ! a separa > > te tab loop, if so how did you make it work?" > > > > > > Since the documentation seems to indicate that FocusManager will allow > > > multiple tab loops that was the approach I was investigating. > > > > > > My primary goal, irrespective of how I do it is to create what I call a > > > "tab domain." Whatever it is called, what I need is the ability to define > > > a captive group of objects from which focus will never leave by pressing > > > the tab key. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > >
