How to create a button to launch a color picker

Question

I have a client how does not like the color picker component.
Currently I'm trying with no luck to get a button to launch the
selector portion of the color picker. I tried the following code on
the buttons on click method -
Any idea on how I would do this?
Thanks,
Jack

Answer 1

This works.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:ColorPicker id="clr"/>
<mx:Button label="Open Color Picker"
click="clr.open()"/>
</mx:Application>
In your case you did not add the CP to the display list:
private function launchCP(): void {
var cp:ColorPicker = new ColorPicker();
cp.addChild(cp);
cp.open();
You are better off creating CP adding it to stage, and then
setting visible and include in layout to false, then set them to
true and call open when button is clicked.