HaxeFlixel / HaxeFlixel/flixel-ui

FlxUI dropdown focus logic only works for widgets created from xml

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Description

There is special logic inside FlxUI.onFocus() to prevent clicking through the dropdown list of a FlxUIDropDownMenu (e.g. if there is a button under it). However, this logic iterates over the members of the FlxUI instance which does not include widgets created via code. Besides, there isn't a FlxUI instance in the first place without an _xml_id.

This leads to a bug in the FlxTween demo: HaxeFlixel/flixel-demos#159

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Research direction

Start in FlxUI.onFocus() and inspect how its members are populated, then compare that path with FlxUIDropDownMenu widgets created from code rather than XML. Reproduce the click-through behavior from the FlxTween demo referenced in HaxeFlixel/flixel-demos#159; done means dropdown items prevent clicks from reaching widgets beneath them regardless of how the dropdown was created.

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Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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