RE: [flexcoders] Re: Capture events a la the underlying transparent window from PopUpManager

[Tony Pujals]

I basically posted the same question on 2/14/06 (“Mouse Event Filtering”) and nobody was able to provide a solution.   I found this link that explained the grisly situation with Flash event capturing (http://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/buttoncapturing/). I had to move on for a while working on a rich text editor that worked around Flash’s also grisly text selection timing problems (which you have to deal with if you want to implement something like a text styles toolbar, and you want to refresh the selected text, but need to do it after Flash finishes its updating several frames later).   Anyway, I’m working on a slight variation of the delegation method discussed in the article, but I’m not happy that I have to do something that the framework should be doing for me, which is checking to see if a mouse event occurs within the bounds of the topmost component of a container’s children, and invoking the mouse handler there.   If I come up with a reliable and generic enough solution, I’ll be happy to post it … but it would be nice if someone with experience/knowledge in this area could at least indicate if this is a problem that has been addressed with Flex 2.0….   -Tony     tony pujals| senior engineer | Yahoo! SiteBuilder Express p. 408.349.6284 | e. tonyp * yahoo-inc . com | y!id tonypujals     From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manish Jethani Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:09 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Capture events a la the underlying transparent window from PopUpManager   On 3/13/06, dopenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, no - its actually the opposite I am trying to achieve. Where the > underlying layers do not recieve the event. > > Part of my MXML: > > <mx:Panel [snip] >         mouseDown="this.shoppingcartViewHelper.onMouseDown(event)" [snip] > The questions is how do I get this panel to capture all mouse-events > and NOT bubble them on to the lower layers? Sorry, I really don't remember how this worked in Flex 1.5, but can you try setting event.bubbles to false (in the mouseDown handler)? Manish -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.