Little help with popups

[LightMan]

I'm trying to have the quicklaunch popup to appear over a region, but since I haven't had time to dig through the updated reference file, so far I haven't got a clue as to how to disable the buttons of the region that is  (tried the deactivate command, but it didn't work for some reason)

Also, I need it to clear the screen when its closed, but it's not doing that either.

Can anyone shed some quick light into any of these issues?

[LightMan]

btw, here's the skin if someone wants to take a look at it in order to help.

It's the last 2 regions of the skin.

[fishboy]

I will try to take a look and see if I can help if I get the chance (on vacation the next few days).  I wrote a laucher with a popup menu that works, but the menu pops up over the icons instead of above them (the menu is displayed in its own region).  I use the deactive/activate buttons commands and updateregions command.  I would think with a little modification this same code should work for you.  Here is the link in case you have not seen it.

http://dark-mojo.com/TodayPlus/viewtopic.php?p=3556#3556

[jhollin1138]

Since the launcer pop-up is displaying over the POOM region, don't you need to refresh the POOM region after closing the pop-up?

[srs]

yes, the tasks region needs to be redrawn when the popup is closed, so adding a

updateregions,1

should work.

also you will need to move the popup region above region 1, as the updateregions command only works on subsequent lines (ie if it is encountered after region,1 it won't update region 1).

[fishboy]

FYI, added this info to the updateregions command of the skin reference to be posted later.

[LightMan]

yes, the tasks region needs to be redrawn when the popup is closed, so adding a
updateregions,1
should work.
also you will need to move the popup region above region 1, as the updateregions command only works on subsequent lines (ie if it is encountered after region,1 it won't update region 1).

I had the "updateregions,1" alone and it didn't work.

So I tried your suggestion of moving the popup region above region 1, but then, it's another region that is overlapped by the popup and no longer region 1 , which will show up below the popup region ... *sigh* I guess I'll stick with the popup over the same region, like in fishboy's launcher ...

Thanks for the tips guys

@fishboy : as I mentioned in my Intuition skin thread, my launcher is based upon yours already Nice job with it btw

[LightMan]

...just to finalize this, here's what I settled with : (simply tweaked fishboy's popup in the same region)

[srs]

hmmmm...

not sure what I was thinking before, but changing:

Code Select Expand

imagebutton,211,2,expand active.png,t,18,4,0,16,17 to

Code Select Expand

imagebutton,211,2,expand active.png,t,18,4,0,16,17,1

in region,18,100 is the best solution.  I just tried it and it works fine...

[LightMan]

hmmmm...

not sure what I was thinking before, but changing:

Code Select Expand

imagebutton,211,2,expand active.png,t,18,4,0,16,17 to

Code Select Expand

imagebutton,211,2,expand active.png,t,18,4,0,16,17,1

in region,18,100 is the best solution.  I just tried it and it works fine...

Thanks, I will try that.