There are only 4 weaknesses in the current framework; if you stay aware of these, I see no reason why you SHOULDN’T be using Macromedia’s v2 component framework for Flash.

1. Alert, PopUpManager, and ComboBox do not work when loaded into other movies. You can fix them by including List and Alert and whatever component you are trying to load as a popup in the movie loading you.
2. Skinning is not easy on all components. List, Button, CheckBox, Label, TextInput are decent. DataChooser is the worst, and the rest are hard.
3. the current license, both 7 and 8, still doesn’t give developers enough confidence to distribute their work in open source projects which may/may not have competing licenses.
4. Flex’ component framework is better

I guess this is kinda OT tho… the comment is not about *how* to do it, rather, show that the current framework isn’t quite up to snuff when it comes to these kinds of issues…

Maybe that’s why I always find it hard to use the current component structure – I always feel like I am gonna come across stuff like this at some point and it is gonna burn me, so for now, it is better to roll my own infrastructure. It’s a trust issue…perhaps as the next framework comes out developers will hammer away at it and figure out the weak points before it is released and that kind of nervous apprehension can be avoided…

…ah, if only it were that easy.

If I bypass that, and just make my own, then I gotta go change it in 5 other places in my code. Then, I guess I just abandon PopUpManager, and Alert.show.

…THEN, I gotta test it in loadMovie; if I make something Modal, is it truely modal? What if it’s loaded into a _level? What if it’s loaded into an mc? Should I dig upwards, and make a modal dialogue, or stay in my ‘SWF’ sandbox?

Again, those are the wrong questions. Rather than ask how I can get the code to work within the player constraints, rather, the player should support common application methodologies, case in point modality. Just like if you right click and go to ‘Settings’, notice how EVERYTHING is modal except that dialgoue? You can’t even tab off it. THAT’s how it really should work (excluding anything ever being more modal than settings, hehe!).

For now, PopUpManager works great… unless your SWF is loaded into another one, then it breaks.

Can you simulate the same thing as PopUpManager by just dynmaically creating your own movie clips, 1 (modality_mc) to handle the modality and another to load the content.

I think you actually showed me the below code…
modality_mc.onPress = null;
modality_mc.enabled = false;

Then just loadmovie into content_mc that is above modality_mc.

I guess I’m a little confused with what you are trying to do beyond what that would give you?

Thanks for all your help!