CS5 Dropdownlist issues/warning

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vfxman
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This is more of a heads up to anyone using dropdownlists in old or new scripts that get run through CS5. I was noticing that my lists are not drawing outside the boundries of the window/panel. I filed this as a bug with Adobe already, but I somehow feel this was a deliberate choice only to keep the UI clean and in line with the rest of the AE GUI, which I can understand, but they didn't realize it would effect dropdownlist's like this. Oops. Anyway heads up if you use a dropdown now for CS5 on Leopard. I haven't had a chance to run this on Snow Leopard yet, but expect the same results.

Here are samples of what I'm talking about.

AE CS5:
This would be a standard UI setup (for me at least) for a dropdownlist and a close button
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As you can see, when I click the dropdown, it now chokes the list to stay within the window/panel and turns it into a scrolling list. Unfortunately here, you can't even see the items or the scroll bar.
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Compensating UI to show list CS5:
This shot shows my new window set to a higher vertical amount to have enough space to show the list. Ugly as can be and not very friendly for the user to have in the way of their work.
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But the list shows. :)
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AE CS4:
In CS4 this was not an issue. This is a nice small profile window...
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And the list shows when you click it.
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Got an answer back from Adobe Bug Reports just now on this issue.
This is a known limitation of ScriptUI having a Flex (i.e., Flash)-based UI in CS5 -- contents can't overlap the edges of the "stage". Agreed that this is not pretty.

- aebugs
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Simma
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Does anyone have a workaround for this? I get this problem that if I press the dropdownlist when the boundries are to small, the scripts stops working. I have to close the UI and relaunch the script to get it to work. Anyone else have this problem?
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Sounds like a straight up bug. I've had it where if the panel is floating(not docked in the UI) and you toggle down a dropdownlist, then try to resize the panel window without selecting an item from the dropdown, it will lock up the script.

Feel free to send an Adobe bug report/feature request like I did:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/in ... e=wishform
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