Setting position of Alert control in Flex

02 Nov 2007

It seems, there is no direct way of setting position (x, y) of Alert control in Flex 2. The trivial method (setting x, y) is either buggy or there must be some official way, which I am not aware of.

I found some different ways to do that:-

var alert:Alert = Alert.show("Can you see me on random positions?",
"I am an Alert box", Alert.YES | Alert.NO,
this, alertClickHandler, null, Alert.NO);
PopUpManager.centerPopUp (alert);
var newX:Number = 200;
var newY:Number = 200;
alert.move (newX, newY)

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var alert:Alert = Alert.show("Can you see me on random positions?",
"I am an Alert box", Alert.YES | Alert.NO,
this, alertClickHandler, null, Alert.NO);
var newX:Number = 200;
var newY:Number = 200;
callLater (alert.move, [newX, newY]);

</code>

Following, to me, sounds like a little expensive because we are asking for the immediate validation.

var alert:Alert = Alert.show("Can you see me on random positions?",
"I am an Alert box", Alert.YES | Alert.NO,
this, alertClickHandler, null, Alert.NO);
var newX:Number = 200;
var newY:Number = 200;
alert.validateNow ();
alert.move (newX, newY);

</code>

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