User Guide

988 PopUpManager class
PopUpManager.createPopUp()
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
PopUpManager.createPopUp(parent, class, modal [, initobj, outsideEvents])
Parameters
parent A reference to a window to pop-up over.
class A reference to the class of object you want to create.
modal A Boolean value indicating whether the window is modal (true) or not (false).
initobj An object containing initialization properties. This parameter is optional.
outsideEvents A Boolean value indicating whether an event is triggered if the user clicks
outside the window (
true) or not (false). This parameter is optional.
Returns
A reference to the object that was created.
If the
class parameter is Window and a window component is in the library, the returned
reference is a Window.
Description
Method; if modal, a call to createPopUp() finds the topmost parent window starting with
parent and creates an instance of class. If nonmodal, a call to
createPopUp() creates an
instance of the class as a child of the parent window.
Example
The following code creates a modal window when the button is clicked:
lo = new Object();
lo.click = function(){
mx.managers.PopUpManager.createPopUp(_root, mx.containers.Window, true);
}
button.addEventListener("click", lo);