You could put a 100% HBox as the first child of the Application. Then you'd get your horizontal layout, plus have a place to put your explicitly positioned elements.
Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bithroop Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How can I overlay a UIComponent on top of my application? Hmm.. I might not be understanding what you're suggesting, but... I have the exact component that I want to overlay... really the question is what to addChild it to. Can I access the main displayContainer and if so how? My Application.application uses horizontal layout so it's not a candidate. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Blake Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure about this, but you could try capturing a bitmap on > MouseOver (of every component) of event.target > > var bd : BitmapData (event.target); > bd.draw (300, 300); > var bmp : Bitmap ( bd ); > > then try adding that bitmap to the main displayContainer ("the stage"). > I hope this works as a starting point. > > Blake > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of bithroop > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:13 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] How can I overlay a UIComponent on top of my > application? > > > > Trying to figure out the best way to do this... > > I have an image in my UI which is small. I want a larger version of it > to draw, attached to the mouse cursor, when the user rolls over it. > Kinda like a tooltip but moving along with the cursor. (Mixbook does > this if you've ever seen it) > > I have it mostly working but my main issue is that I know I always > want the zoomed version of the image to draw on top of the entire UI. > These small images can be in any number of different types of > containers, so I can't addChild the UIComponent to the small image or > to its parent... needs to be something like a popup or tooltip. > > Peeked a bit at SystemManager for this since that's what PopupManager > talks about... anyway, anyone have any insight on this? Should I make > it a cursor? >
