icon popup

[acarur01]

I wanted to check with you (because I could'nt find an immediate equal control) if the image attached is possible. It is basically an icon/image when clicked shows the "bubble" underneath (or on top depending on the location of the icon in the browser.
If there is nothing built in, then I think maybe a custom canvas with an icon + a child canvas with a snapTo property would satisfy this behaviour? And if I do go the custom route, I wanted to make sure that the child canvas has the ability to show over other controls that are already on the screen - so if there are more fields under the icon, when the user clicks the icon, it would just show on top of the fields. It is essentially a tooltip but the user can control when to close it (throught the icon or when the user clicks elsewhere).

[Isomorphic]

This isn't built in exactly as you have it (though we do have some somewhat similar things - standard Canvas.prompt behavior, and the Dialog class for example).
This FormItem icon example shows a very similar concept, but with somewhat different UI http://smartclient.com/#formIcons

Regardless, it'd be easy to build this yourselves.
You could make the prompt bubble work in a couple of ways. Assuming your launch button is a Canvas subclass (rather than a FormItemIcon), you could make the prompt bubble a top-level component and use showNextTo() to position it, perhaps. You'll also want to bringToFront() to ensure it floats above other content on the page, and possibly use a clickMask if you want the user to be able to dismiss the bubble on outside click.
Alternatively you could consider making the prompt bubble a peer of the launching button (and yes - the snapTo functionality would also be a way to correctly position it).

Regards
Isomorphic Software