Cairngorm 3 Popups in Modules problem

[shulladrian]

I have tried playing around witht the 'PopupTest' application provided in the /C3/trunk/Libraries/PopupTest/

and have found 2 issues:

Issue 1:

Caiorngorm 3 Popups (either PopupWrapper or PopupFactory) gives me an error when used inside a Module.

I am using Flex 4 with the following libraries:

"parsley-flex4-2.3.1.swc"

"spicelib-flex-2.3.1.swc"

"popup-1.7.swc"

And here is the error:

Main Thread (Suspended: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.)

mx.managers::PopUpManagerImpl/addPopUp

mx.managers::PopUpManager$/addPopUp

com.adobe.cairngorm.popup::PopUpBase/openPopUp

com.adobe.cairngorm.popup::PopUpBase/set open

ModulePopups/___ModulePopups_Button1_click

Which occurs in here: PopUpManagerImpl.as at line 434: awm.activate(IFocusManagerContainer(window));

Issue 2:

Also the behaviours illustrated in the original 'PopupTest' application seem to have an issue with some missing behaviours from the com.adobe.cairngorm.popup.behavior.mx  for <mx1:ZoomAndFadeBehavior/>

I have attached a simpler version of the application and replicated the 2 issues here.

Please have a look and let me know of any solutions,

Thanks,

[Nicolas_Yuen]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for reporting the issue and taking the time to create a sample project. We'll have a look at your issue and will get back to you soon.

Nicolas

[ledroff]

Nicolas,

Do we have jira tickets for those 2 ?

What are they ?

Thanks,

Cheers,

François

[shulladrian]

Thank you Nicolas, looking forward.

[Nicolas_Yuen]

It does indeed fail when the PopUpWrapper is not linked in the main application, It might be an issue with the ModuleFactory or the ApplicationDomain. I'll have a second look tonight but in the meantime, forcing the linkage of the PopUpWrapper in the main app is a workaround :

<fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import com.adobe.cairngorm.popup.PopUpWrapper;
            PopUpWrapper;
 ]]>
    <mx:Box 
        width="100%" height="100%"
        >
        <mx:ModuleLoader url="ModulePopups.swf"/>
    </mx:Box>

[Nicolas_Yuen]

On second thought, this is not related to the Cairngorm PopUp Library. You need to have a reference to the PopUpManager on your top level application so that the instance (there is only one PopUpManager per application) can be shared accross modules. That's how Flex 4 works at the moment so we need to highlight this in the documentation.

this piece of code fixes the issue (without dependencies to the PopUp library on the main app):

<fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
            PopUpManager
        ]]>
</fx:Script>

There are also a few effects that are not working in Flex 4.1 and I believe they have been fixed in 4.5 but I'll have to double check to see if the issue comes from the library.

Hope it helps,

Nicolas