component patch, pad property for GWcontextMenu

If you want to attach the ContextMenu component be carefull to set the pad property. If you forget this, the ContextMenu is positioned at _x:0 and _y:0. There is no default value in the ContextMenu class, but perhaps something like the following could be added in a future release.

ContextMenu class, 19 (e.g.):
this.pad = (this.pad == undefined) ? 3 : this.pad;

Another patch for the ContextMenu: The setSize() Method should be:

GWContextMenuClass.prototype.setSize = function(w,h)
{
this.hotspot_mc.setSize(w, h);
}

and not:

GWContextMenuClass.prototype.setSize = function(w,h)
{
this.hotspot_mc._width = w;
this.hotspot_mc._height = h;
}

because this.hotspot_mc is a Panel component which needs to be resized by the named method, not via the properties.

(By the way: the Ghostwire components are really great. Finding these small bugs means only that I use them in an advanced Actionscript scenario. It is so great to have the source code. That makes many things possible.)

Thanks for the recommendations, but...

1) I don't quite understand the issue with 'pad' - this shouldn't affect the ContextMenu's positioning... do you mean the positioning of the "hotspot area" or the "popup menu"?

2) hotspot_mc is a simple movieclip, NOT a panel component instance; it uses the 'panel_mc' symbol, but that is just a simple movieclip symbol , not the Panel component itself

Sorry for the totally wrong post before (as Guest_mecklen). Sunny, you could remove it, if you want. I thought I´ve found the solution of my problem to dynamically resize the ContextMenu. The problem is, that the ContextMenu doesn´t catch initially the size of the clip and forward it to the this.hotspot_mc MovieClip (which isn´t a Panel component as I thought, it´s just named panel_mc). To catch the initial size just add the following code at ContextMenu class, 19:

this.width = (this._width == undefined) ? 100 : this._width;
this.height = (this._height == undefined) ? 100 : this._height;
this._width = 100;
this._height = 100;
this.setSize(this.width, this.height);

Now the ContextMenu is allways at 100% (which is 100px x 100px), just the hotspot_mc ist scaled (using the saved values). If this is initially done, the setSize() function works as expected and is totally correct:

GWContextMenuClass.prototype.setSize = function(w,h)
{
this.hotspot_mc._width = w;
this.hotspot_mc._height = h;
}

Yes, I´ve meant the popup menu. It was allways placed at the top left corner before I´ve added the pad default value or have set it via the initial object of the attachMovie Method.

To dynamically resize the hotspot area, just use the 'setSize' method after you have instantiated the ContextMenu instance:

myContextMenu.setSize(100,100);

Passing width/height parameters to the initObject WILL NOT work. If you wish to modify the code, I suggest that you use variable names like "hsWidth" and "hsHeight" (hs for hotspot) so as not to confuse yourself later with "width" and "height".