Comments on: Getting all the popups in a Flex application

By: Andrea Bresolin

Andrea Bresolin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:18:32 +0000

Thanks for the feedback FlexMaster_Flash! You’re right. This post was pretty old. I’ve just updated it.

By: FlexMaster_Flash

FlexMaster_Flash — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:46:53 +0000

Thanks for this post, you saved my day as well!

One note: got a warning that “Application” had been deprecated, so the following…

applicationInstance = Application.application;

needs to change to…

applicationInstance = FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication;

..and of course you will need this as well:
import mx.core.FlexGlobals;

With those changes, works perfectly in Flash Builder 4.0.1

By: A

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:40:00 +0000

I Love you ! you saved my day ..

By: andr01dm

andr01dm — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:37:52 +0000

I was using PopUpManagerChildList to track popups in order to remove the all in one go, but I found that it crashed my application when one of the popups contained a MenuBar, which also uses the PopUpManager.

I used your example here to write a new method for finding and removing all of the popups without using PopUpManagerChildList.

Thank you.

By: Arend

Arend — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:05:47 +0000

thanks for posting!

By: sravan kumar reddy Konda

sravan kumar reddy Konda — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:12:34 +0000

Hey Pradeep,

Its pretty straight forward with flex 3.5 sdk you can access a property called nummodelwindows its gives the list of model windows currently in ur application and then play with it..

By: JG

JG — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:31:28 +0000

Thanks for the post! Saved me a bunch of time. I owe you a beer

By: Andrea Bresolin

Andrea Bresolin — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:40:20 +0000

Hi Pradeep. I don't know an easy way to detect if a popup is modal or not as the modal windows management seems to be internal to mx.managers.PopUpManagerImpl in the Flex framework. If you look at the createModalWindow function in that class, you'll see that the modal windows could be created as FlexSprite named modalWindow and they are always the child immediately before the corresponding popup in systemManager.rawChildren. So if this is the case for you, you could just go through the systemManager.rawChildren as the function getAllPopups in PopUpUtils does and check if the raw child before the popup is named modalWindow to see if it's modal. I hope this helps.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:28:18 +0000

Hi,

I want to detect whether a popup is modal or not. If it is modal, then the rest of the components will be blurred and the user cannot interact with them. I want to programmatically catch this scenario.

Could you please tell me how?

Thanks,
Pradeep.