ContextMenu closing with strange results

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Hello,

I have a very simple AIR app (Flex 3.4.1, source below…), that has only two things:

  1. a canvas with an event listener to trace the mouse location
  2. a simple context menu

I notice that the event listener for the mouse move seems to stop working when I do the following:

a. pop up the context menu
b. highlight the “test” item but do not select it
c. close the popup by clicking off the menu (on the canvas)

I am using Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), and I further notice that if I press Command-~ (as if I were toggling open windows) the listener returns. Lastly, I notice that if I pop up the menu but don’t highlight the item before clicking off, everything works as expected.

All of this leads me to believe that somehow highlighting the menu item creates a “window” that isn’t being properly disposed of in this particular case when I click off - does anybody have a suggestion of what might be going on here?

Thank you,
Chris Stolte

<mx:WindowedApplication layout=“absolute” applicationComplete=“init()”
xmlns:mx=“http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[

        private function init():void {
            // Listener to trace mouseX property
            myCanvas.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE,
                    function (e:MouseEvent):void {
                        trace(myCanvas.mouseX);
                    });
            
            // Create a simple context menu
            myCanvas.contextMenu= new ContextMenu();
            myCanvas.contextMenu.addItem(new NativeMenuItem("test"));
        }
        
    ]]&gt;
&lt;/mx:Script&gt;
&lt;mx:Canvas id="myCanvas" height="50%" width="50%" backgroundColor="0x00FF00"/&gt;

</mx:WindowedApplication>