Wow - images are not mouse targets. Okay, that's going to be challenging - because I was actually planning on some special actions to occur when the user clicked on the corners of the image. So maybe the transparent sprite will be the key? I'll try it...
Thanks! --Tracey --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Images are not mouse targets. Try setting mouseChildren=true and/or > mouseEnabled=true in the renderer. You may also need to cover the image > with a Sprite with alpha=0 > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of tsiesser > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Context menu mouseTarget vs. itemRenderer with > Image control > > > > I'm hoping someone's had experience with this one... I have a TileList > control with a custom itemRenderer. The renderer consists of an Image > control and a few Label controls. > > I've also attached a custom context menu to the TileList. In the > MENU_SELECT event, I want to set the TileList's selectedItem to the > item that the mouse is over before popping up the context menu. So I > examine the event.mouseTarget property... this might be one of the > embedded Label controls, so I crawl up the parent property till I get > to the top. Works great - I eventually get to the itemRenderer level, > where I can check if the renderer.data value is already selected, and > if not, select it. > > It *doesn't* work if I right-click on the Image control. In that case, > mouseTarget comes back as a MovieClip object with its parent property > set to null - there doesn't seem to be any way to determine which > itemRenderer it belongs to! > > Any ideas? All help appreciated, as always!!! > > --Tracey >
