You were in the right direction. After picking up your clues I found
a workaround on MM livedocs:
<snip>
To use it correctly you first have to know what instance have to be
set on top: Its not the component itself. Its the mc called
"__dropdown" (with two "__").
So with this workaround its working fine:
var comboName=new Object
comboName.onMouseDown=function() {
a=_root.getNextHighestDepth()
comboName.__dropdown.swapDepths(a)
}
So everytime Combobox gets clicked the dropdownmenu will be displayed
on Top. It no longer disappears behind other mc's
</snip>
thnx for pointing me in the right direction! =)
-radley
On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:33 AM, elibol wrote:
Yes it seems like the items that are dynamically loaded into the
combo boxes
were not available in the library. I'm a bit confused though
Radley, after
exposing the combobox in your root.swf library were the dropdowns
working?
I'm not sure if you've put the comboboxes onto the root.
anyway, the way to solve this would be to make the depth of the
combobox
who's y position is lowers depth lower than the rest.
let's say cb1, cb2, cb3 are you combo boxes and target is your
movieclip
that they're on, where 1 has the lowest y position and 3 has the
highest.
var i = target.getNextHighestDepth();
cb3.swapDepths(i);
cb2.swapDepths(++i);
cb1.swapDepths(++i);
just remember, anything with a depth greater than 1048575 cannot be
removed
using removeMovieClip(), I would not recommend using
getNextHighestDepth for
this reason but this is one way of explaining how you can avoid the
overlapping.
Hope this helps,
M.
On 4/13/06, Radley Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all,
I'm using a few comboBoxes in my current project. The comboBoxes are
all in child.swf which is loaded into the root.swf.
At first, the drop-downs wouldn't appear when the comboBox bar is
pressed. Once I added a comboBox to the root.swf Library they
appeared to work fine, except now I'm having overlap issues.
In the first case, the top bar is visible. When pressed, the drop-
down menu somehow appears underneath everything else on the child.swf
stage. Would this have anything to do with needing a comboBox in the
root.swf library??
In the 2nd case, I have three combo boxes all together on the stage
with a long comboBox about 150 pixels above the other two. When this
comboBox is selected, the drop menu appears underneath the lower two
comboBoxes, instead of above them.
Solution? What am I missing here??
thnx =)
-radley
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