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Tintin
Tintin

Reputation: 2983

How to know if a popup is already showing up on the screen in flex

I need to know if a popup (which is a singleton titlewindow, hence would be initialized only once) is already shown in the screen or not, if not then i will call a function to show it up, otherwise do something else.

I tried findPopup.focusEnabled //findPopup is the titlewindow class for popup

But it is always true irrespective of whether the popup is shown in the screen currently or not.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2917

Answers (4)

cwallenpoole
cwallenpoole

Reputation: 82048

All objects rendered on the screen have a root:DisplayObject property. If it is removed from the screen, then root will be null. If your concern is whether the pop-up is in front of everything else, then use popUpObj.parent.setChildIndex(popUpObj, popUpObj.parent.numChildren - 1) to ensure it (more on this below). You will need to iterate through all of the parent until you reach the root itself. (With the PopUpManager, I believe that the MovieClip is added directly to the root, so it should only be once, but I don't recall at the moment)

Everything else is obvious:

  • is alpha = 1?
  • visible = true?
  • is width > 5
  • is height > 5
  • ... I could continue, but I think the idea is pretty clear.

On testing visibility of obscured objects:

Honestly, this is easiest to do on the root.

var firstParent:DisplayObjectContainer = /* 
                                            find the ancestor which is on 
                                            the root. You may need to look up 
                                            "path to root AS3"
                                         */
var num:int = root.numChildren;
//iterate backwards to exclude things below the target clip.
for( var i:int = num - 1; i >= 0; i-- )
{
     var kid:DisplayObject = root.getChildAt( i );
     if( kid == firstParent ) break; // no sense in continuing.
     if( firstParent.hitTestObject( kid ) )
     {
         // kid at least partially obscures the pop-up. Do something with it.
     }
}

Upvotes: 2

recursivity
recursivity

Reputation: 144

[Edit:]

Didn't know you were using PopUpManager. Please use Ranhiru Cooray's answer.

A reminder that PopUpManager has it's own method to put a pop up in front of all other objects: bringToFront(popup)

[/Edit]

Are you trying to find out if the pop up has been added to the stage or if it is still actually visible on the screen and not hidden behind other display objects ?

If it's the first, you could find out with a search (flex 3)

// popUpContainer is the object containing the pop up
if (popUpContainer.contains(FindPopup.getInstance()))
{
      // The popup was added to stage
}
else
{
      popUpContainer.addChild(FindPopup.getInstance());
}

If it's the second, you could make sure it is visible by adding it to the application root and making sure it has the highest index. But it's hard to test if it's actually being shown on the screen, since it could be 40% or 60% hidden behind other objects.

// Placing the pop up on top of other display objects in the application root
this.setChildIndex(FindPopup.getInstance(), this.numChildren - 1);

Upvotes: 0

Jude Cooray
Jude Cooray

Reputation: 19862

Use isPopUp

Set to true by the PopUpManager to indicate that component has been popped up.

Upvotes: 3

Kumsal Obuz
Kumsal Obuz

Reputation: 825

You can check if the object exists with an if block

if(findPopup)
findPopUp.visible=true;

assuming you turned of the visibility off to hide the window. You can of course destroy the object and recreate it if desired. In this case, you don't need that if block because it'll be reconstructed from scratch.

You can still use that if logic to be sure if somewhere in your code, something has already created your popup object. Maybe another class will be doing that behind the scenes so the basic idea is to guarantee that such object exists or not.

Upvotes: 0

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