Hey guys, thanks for the additional suggestions. I'm thinking reparenting might involve working through some layout issues, but would probably work.
Alex, I assume you mean I should use popupmanager to popup a new instance of the component and set its location to be on top of first instance? What if I want to set focus to an arbitrary box that contains several components - i.e. something arbitrary that I can't create a new instance of? Is there some way to make a popup display an existing displayobject that I'm not aware of? Thanks again! Shaun --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could popup a copy of the component over the component in question. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Mark Hawley > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Make a component 'modal' > > You could try temporarily reparenting the "strong focused" component so > it was over everything else in the displayList, then drop a big > translucent grey box behind it, set to intercept mouse clicks. That > sounds like it should work, eh? > > -Mark Hawley > > > > > From: "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2007/03/30 Fri AM 09:08:29 CST > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Make a component 'modal' > > > > That would work, but it would only disable controls, not give the > > greyed out look to the rest of the screen, like the popups do. I > > suppose I could do like you say, but instead have the style changed > > for the other components... > > > > but I'm really hoping there's some way to create a magic function > > like: > > > > public static function strongFocus(control:DisplayObject):void > > { > > ... > > } > > > > that I can call from anywhere and it will grey out and disable mouse > > interaction with everything on the stage but the control passed in. > > > > Am I hoping for too much? > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Clint Tredway" <grumpee@> > > wrote: > > > > > > without seeing how you setup your code, here is my suggestion. > > > > > > Set the parent containers of the other 'components' enabled > > attribute to a > > > bindable var or even a state, and then when that specific button is > > clicked, > > > set the var to false or in the case of using states, just change > > the state. > > > Either way, that should accomplish what you are describing. > > > > > > HTH, > > > Clint > > > > > > On 30 Mar 2007 07:36:17 -0700, Shaun <sthalberstadt@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there any way to make a component modal/hilight it? I would > > like to > > > > be able to gray out (like when a popup is shown) everything on the > > > > > screen but a certain component when the user click on a specific > > button. > > > > > > > > Basically I want a popup that's not a popup, but rather sets the > > focus > > > > on a particular component that is already in the displaylist. > > > > > > > > Thoughts on the best way to acheive this? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Shaun > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > I am not a diabetic, I have diabetes my blog - > > > http://grumpee.instantspot.com/blog > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > John Mark Hawley > The Nilbog Group > 773.968.4980 (cell) > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links >
