Lightbox with Flex

Question

I want a fusion chart in my flex app to display with a Lightbox effect like the effect you get when you click on any of the charts here or checkout the demos here

These effect have been attained with the help of javascript. How do i get the same effect via Flex? Any idea?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

I built a Flex component called PopUpThumbnail that is very similar to HTML/JavaScript lightbox components.

Here's an example application that I created with it to displays Flickr images.

Answer 2

Add a mask over the top of the whole application with the content area in the middle and the semi alpha area around it. Clicking on the surrounding mask removes the layer, and you can interact with the content area as normal (make it look like a popup rather than actually using one...)