On the money once again Alex, thanks. I've not eliminated startDrag() and stopDrag() from my code as things seem to work correctly now, but am curious to know why you avoid them. Can you provide some of your reasoning?
Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > at createChildren, this.width could be 0 > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:29 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: MOUSE_LEAVE never fires in IE if drag with > bounds is active > > > > Dang Alex, you're the man. I never would have figured out its because > of the textfield. Your proposed solution of an invisible item over the > titlebar works perfectly, and since my real use case is a subclass of > Panel I can easily integrate this approach. > > One odd thing maybe you can enlighten me on though is that it seems > like I have to create the cover piece in updateDisplayList() because > doing it in createChildren() doesn't work. The item isn't even visible > if I create it in createChildren(). Any ideas why? Here is the code I > have tried inside both methods. > > if(!c) > { > c = new Canvas(); > c.x = c.y = 0; > c.width = this.width; > c.height = this.titleBar.height; > c.setStyle("backgroundColor", 0x000000); > this.rawChildren.addChild(c); > } > > Thanks a ton, greatly appreciated. > Ben > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > , "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote: > > > > One more thing: It is related to mouseDown in a TextField which is in > > the Panel title. In my testing, if I grab the white content area and > > drag I do not have a problem. Makes me think that if you put an > alpha=0 > > sprite over the textfield in the panel's title it might work better in > > IE, but I don't have time to try it. > > > > FWIW, my test case is: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " > > layout="absolute" > > viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html" creationComplete="init()"> > > <mx:Script> > > <![CDATA[ > > > > private var lastX:Number; > > private var lastY:Number; > > > > private function init():void > > { > > pnl.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onMouseDown); > > } > > > > private function onMouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void > > { > > lastX = event.stageX; > > lastY = event.stageY; > > pnl.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onLeave); > > pnl.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove); > > systemManager.stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, onLeave); > > } > > > > private function onMove(event:MouseEvent):void > > { > > var deltaX:Number = event.stageX - lastX; > > var deltaY:Number = event.stageY - lastY; > > > > lastX = event.stageX; > > lastY = event.stageY; > > > > pnl.move(Math.max(0, Math.min(100, pnl.x + deltaX)), > > Math.max(0, Math.min(100, pnl.y + deltaY))); > > > > } > > > > private function onLeave(event:Event):void > > { > > pnl.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onLeave); > > pnl.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMove); > > systemManager.stage.removeEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, onLeave); > > > > } > > ]]> > > </mx:Script> > > <mx:Panel id="pnl" width="400" height="300" title="Panel One" /> > > </mx:Application> > > > > > > ________________________________ >
