Alert component

The Alert component lets you display a window that presents the user with a message and response buttons. The window has a title bar that you can fill with text, a message that you can customize, and buttons whose labels you can change. An Alert window can have any combination of Yes, No, OK, and Cancel buttons, and you can change the button labels by using the Alert.okLabel, Alert.yesLabel, Alert.noLabel, and Alert.cancelLabel properties. You cannot change the order of the buttons in an Alert window; the button order is always OK, Yes, No, Cancel. An Alert window closes when a user clicks any of its buttons.

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The Alert component is supported only if you are working in a document that specifies ActionScript 2.0 in its Publish Settings.

To display an Alert window, call the Alert.show() method. In order to call the method successfully, the Alert component must be in the library. By dragging the Alert component from the Components panel to the Stage and then deleting the component, you add the component to the library without making it visible in the document.

The live preview for the Alert component is an empty window.

When you add an Alert component to an application, you can use the Accessibility panel to make the component's text and buttons accessible to screen readers. First, add the following line of code to enable accessibility:

mx.accessibility.AlertAccImpl.enableAccessibility();

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You enable accessibility for a component only once, regardless of how many instances you have of the component.

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