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I am using an instance of the DateField and of the ComboBox components inside a MovieClip that I am loading dynamicaly using attachMovie. In both cases the popUpManager creates the dropDown Menu behind the MovieClip. Any ideas how to solve the problem?
Ok, so I (kind of) found the problem!
If you attach the movieClip with the components using for level the getNextHighestDepth() function the popUpManager seems to get confused and doesn't know where to show the pupUps.
You have to attach the movieClip with an integer as level!!!!!
No Idea why this happens but at least now is working.
Can you show me an example of how you solve this. I have the same situation
I was looking at some code I did recently and I solve the problem like this:
import mx.controls.*
import mx.data.components.*;
class MyContainerClass extends mx.core.UIObject{
private var template_cb : ComboBox;
private var startDate_df : DateField;
public function MyContainerClass{
this.createClassObject(mx.controls.DateField, "startDate_df", this.getNextHighestDepth());
startDate_df.move(725, 2);
...
this.createClassObject(mx.controls.ComboBox, "template_cb", this.getNextHighestDepth());
template_cb.setSize(250, 22);
template_cb.move(70, 66);
}
}
By having your container extend the mx.core.UIObject class you have access to the createClassObject Method which seems to work much better than instancing the components using the attachMovie method.
Hope that helps