Popup parenting issues in multi window

Question

Hello folks,
I have a multi-window AIR application - there is one base
application window, but we currently hide that and use mx:Window
for all of our application windows. The application allows you to
open new windows to enable easy drag and drop between different
areas of content in the app. We use the addPopup method to display
a custom editor control when working a specific content item. That
means that you could have multiple windows open and each one
displaying it's own popup to edit an item that the user if viewing
in the window. 60% or so of the time, the popups work fine and
parent to the proper window, but the other 40% of the time, the
popup will parent to a different window. (I can post a link to a
screencast demonstrating the behavior).
The custom editor class has the following method, this is
called to bring up the editor window. We cache these editors,
following the advice for memory management by Sean Christmann and
others.
public function showOnView(view:UIComponent, mobj:*):void {
PopUpManager.addPopUp(this, view as DisplayObject, true);
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(this);
callLater(_finishShowOnView, [view, mobj]);
The _finishShowOnView method makes sure the instance of the
editor is pointing to right model object. None of that touches the
parent of the popup though.
Anyone have any thoughts?
- Brian

Answer 1

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