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March 30, 2010
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ComboBox fullscreen issue

  • March 30, 2010
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Short version: ComboBox's dropdown works and renders  properly before fullscreen, but not during or after.

I'm not  totally sure how to ask this, so I've actually made a page demonstrating the  error, with a very simple Flex app, and all three directions you  need to experience the problem yourself.

For those of you not daring enough  to follow my link above, I'll do my best to explain here. I've built a  more extensive Flex application (not the one in the link) that has some  graphs and charts and checkboxes and other controls for those charts. At  the bottom of app in a few of the application States, there is a ComboBox.  Because this is at the very bottom, when you click it to access it's dropdown menu, Flex thoughtfully has it come out of the top.  Yay, Flex!

This works  well until Fullscreen mode. Upon entering fullscreen, I scale everything  up with a stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL. Now when you  click on the ComboBox, the dropdown is astonishingly large, and  actually drops beneath the ComboBox, causing it to mostly disappear  off-screen. The best part is, once you exit fullscreen mode, the  dropdown insists on continuing to drop below the ComboBox, which is  positioned at the bottom of the app, and so continues to be cut off.

Has anyone else run into this beast, stared into it's great maw, and come away victorious?  Am I doing fullscreen mode wrong?  Please help!

You can get the source code via View Source from the Flash player in the link, and thank you so much for your time.

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    pwillener
    Legend
    March 30, 2010

    Since this seems to be a Flex issue, wouldn't it be more likely to get an answer in the appropriate Flex forum?

    ImpiratorAuthor
    Participant
    March 30, 2010

    Thanks for the prompt reply!

    Here is a link to my identical, but two week old post on the Flex forums: [Flex] ComboBox fullscreen issue.  I believe the answer to your question is "no".

    Additionally, I have filed a bug report under the Flash player category to this effect, as well as doppelganger posts on Stack Overflow and Flexcoders.  This is the first human response I've gotten on this issue to date, but I did earn an S.O. badge for having no responses for such an extended period of time.

    I posted here after this prolonged duration of nothing, and because I thought perhaps it wasn't an issue with the language, but rather the way it was rendered in the player.  I have no idea where I should be getting answers for this from, but the problem isn't going away on it's own or through my repeated attempts at a solution.  So if this helps me even get directed to the right place, I will be grateful.

    Thank you!