[flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-27 Thread pbrendanc
Thx a bunch - this looks like what I need - however for some reason I'm seeing -ve numbers for my x + y coordinates and my popup is partway off my form/window - any further suggestions. Since my grid is dynamically created are there any other issues/gotcha's I need to consider here? TIA --- In

[flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-27 Thread pbrendanc
No that is not part of the question - I have all the components working and the popup opens and closes correctly - what I'm trying to do is (re)position the popup relative to the location of the grid button that caused it to open - this should be simple but I can't find an example how to do

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-27 Thread Dimitrios Gianninas
maybe its related to what you are specifying as the parent of the PopUp? Make sure it is the same parent that the button is contained within. Dimitrios Gianninas RIA Developer and Team Lead Optimal Payments Inc. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-27 Thread valdhor
This should give you an idea: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute creationComplete=onCreationComplete(event) mx:Script ![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Button; import

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-27 Thread Tracy Spratt
You may need to use the local / global conversion functions, like localtoGlobal() Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pbrendanc Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 5:57 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject:

[flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-26 Thread pbrendanc
Sorry, while I don't mean to be obtuse - however I need some clarification on how/where to get a reference to that event object - that's really what I having a problem with. In my scenario please note: 1) The controls are dynamic, so how to addEventListener to run time controls is unclear to me.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-26 Thread Tracy Spratt
How far have you actually gotten? Do you have your buttons invoking the pop-up yet? Or is that part of your question? Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pbrendanc Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:00 PM To:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to Position a Popup relative to the control that invoked the popup?

2008-06-26 Thread Josh McDonald
If you're creating a popup on a button click, you must already have an event listener. Can you post the code that creates your popup? -Josh On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM, pbrendanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, while I don't mean to be obtuse - however I need some clarification on