A Simple Flex Loading/Mask Component
For ages I searched for a Flex class that would let me blur the screen and show the user a modal message telling them to wait while something happened. In the end I gave up looking and wrote a little ActionScript class that's much like the Alert class. Here's a demo:
To use it is as simple as this:
Mask.show("Please wait..."); When you're done you do this:
Mask.close(); Nice and simple. Here's the code. You can see it in use in the Workspace demo too.
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Nice - I will be using this.
Thanks
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Nice, thanks for sharing
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Do you have a timeframe as to when you will share the 'Workspace' app?
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Some time between now and never. Who knows. Three kids don't leave me much time for stuff like that.
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Slick. Going straight into the toolbox!
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Hi Jake,
Good code!
And as always, thanks for sharing !
;)
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Hi Jake,
Being a bit new to flex, can you use your loading mask when an app first loads itself in a web page?
If so, would you put the Mask.Show("Please wait...") code in the pre-initialiser and the Mask.close() in the creationcompleted events?
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Hi Xander,
Do you mean you want to replace the standard Flex "loading" interface? You can do that but I'm not sure how.
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thanks for your code,nice work
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tiny and very useful, thanks a lot
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Just the trick, cheers!
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