Flex Mobile - Alert and Information Popup Boxes

Since a Android-looking popup box doesn't yet exist in the Hero SDK, I thought I would put a pretty good looking component together.
You can download it (and the sample code) here:
http://www.digitalretro.tv/components/InformationBoxTest.fxp
A real simple example in in the project, for both an Info and an Alert.
I currently only support an "OK" button, but I will be adding a Yes/No and OK/Cancel later this week.
Hopefully this will save someone some time.
Enjoy and feel free to use this in your code (commercial or non-commercial), just leave the copyright code in the component source file in place.
Thanks.
Darren

Hi.
I tried the Messagebox and it works great but is it possible to use a TextInput with it?
I added a Textinput and when i enter the Textinput i got an Focusmanager is null error:
private function touchMouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
         isMouseDown = true;
         mouseDownTarget = event.target as InteractiveObject;
         // If we already have focus, make sure to open soft keyboard
         // on mouse up
       if (focusManager.getFocus() == this)
             delaySetFocus = true;
         // Wait for a mouseUp somewhere
         systemManager.getSandboxRoot().addEventListener(
             MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, touchMouseUpHandler, false, 0, true);
         systemManager.getSandboxRoot().addEventListener(
             SandboxMouseEvent.MOUSE_UP_SOMEWHERE, touchMouseUpHandler, false, 0, true);
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
    at spark.components.supportClasses::SkinnableTextBase/touchMouseDownHandler()[E:\dev\hero_private\frameworks\projects\spark\src\spark\components\supportClasses\SkinnableTextBase.as:2140]
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
    at mx.managers::SystemManager/mouseEventHandler()[E:\dev\hero_private\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\SystemManager.as:2924]
Does anyone tried to use a TextInput or Textarea?
I think it's the a problem with the Keyboard. Does mobile air can't use the "Android" Keyboard in Popup's?

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