Comments on: Setting position of Alert control in Flex

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:10:03 +0000

You can use Alert.show(”text”, “title”, Alert.OK, Application.application as Application, handler); to automatically center the Alert on your entire application initially (Application.application as Application is the Object it will center on in this case).

You have to coerce it to type Application because the static var Application.application is of type Object

By: Arnold Aprieto

Arnold Aprieto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:28 +0000

Thanks Abdul. This has been very useful.
It's just weird to why alert.x and alert.y. did not work, suffice to say they are part of the attributes for Alert.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:28:54 +0000

Thanks for feedback, glad you found it useful.

By: Name

Name — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:09:23 +0000

Excellent.. i went all over the internet but could not find a solution… your method works great!

By: Kyle Dodge

Kyle Dodge — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:37:01 +0000

Thanks! I struggled with this, appreciate it!

By: fabio

fabio — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:35:18 +0000

Hi!
I solved the problem with
myControl=myControlClass(PopUpManager.createPopUp(DisplayObject(Application.application.parentDocument),intervalSelector,true));
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(myControl);

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:21:38 +0000

@John: Right, that’s a workaround to invoke validate the Alert before setting the properties. All of the above methods invalidate and set the property and invalidate…
I am still trying to figure out the reason, I am looking into the code to find the issue with it…
-abdul

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:17:58 +0000

Hello,
Cool stuff…
The centerPopUp method centers the popup relative to it’s parent so another way to place it at certain position is by setting a specific parent component.