DropDownList Items width bug?

[Martin_Ritter]

Hello Community.

I've stumbled over a strange behavior with DropDownLists that could be a bug with AFX. Maybe somebody can confirm or - even better - knows a solution.

I have a plugin with a fluid interface . By fluid I mean: alignment:['fill','fill'], alignChildren:['fill','fill']. I've put a DropDownList into this and it change its size as intended. I can drag the window or panel to make it wider and the list gets wider too. However, when I narrow the window or panel again, the size of the items in the list stays at their previous width.

It's not happening when I run the script with ExtendScript Toolkit CC, only in AFX.

The relevant code:

group{orientation:'column', alignment:['fill','fill'], alignChildren:['fill','fill'],\

                        panelComp: Panel{text:'Composition', orientation:'row', alignment:['fill','top'], alignChildren:['fill','fill'],\

                            compList: DropDownList{properties:{items:['all', 'selected']}},\

                        },\

Screenshots:

1. normal size:

2. wider:

3. back to normal size:

Thank you!

Martin

[David Torno · Accepted solution]

Martin, yes this is a bug. I've run into this as well. Also did a post here awhile back, but can't seem to find it at the moment. It'a very annoying and I never really found a solution to fix it unfortunately.

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Yeap, it's a bug.

Re: AE CC 2014 Dropdown menu width oddness

[Martin_Ritter]

Thank you guys.

I've fixed to size of the dropdownlist to avoid oversize. It's not perfect, but a workaround.

"One of our software engineers is looking into this bug" - Adobe, 10.06.2015

This engineer must have a very deep look into the code...

[Martin_Ritter]

Setting the itemSize to the size of the Dropdown (with correction faktor) did the trick:

myPanel.onResizing = myPanel.onResize = function(){

                mainPanel.panelComp.compList.itemSize = [mainPanel.panelComp.compList.size[0]-27,mainPanel.panelComp.compList.size[1]];

};