issue with openDropDownListWithEvent:

> our app in a couple places does stuff where a user clicks on a button
> whose action in turn employs
> openDropDownListWithEvent: on a combo box to force the list to drop down,
> if the user actually makes a selection everything is fine. However, if  
> the
> user does not and just clicks on an empty piece of real estate what then
> occurs is that the action button in question i.e. that which called
> #openDropDownListWithEvent on the combo box does not get its exit event
> i.e. not quite then. A second event is required i.e. for example just
> clicking once again on empty real estate or any other widget for that
> matter will then force the event to be dispatched to the button.
>
> So in the exception scenario i.e. when the user does not make a selection
>  from the drop down list there is a failure to process the exit event ,  
> so
> it gets deferred and processed later at the wrong time.
>
>
> In VW 3.0 all of this works fine but it does not in 7.x , well at least
> not in our app ported to 7.x.
>
> My guess is that this is a MPUI related issue and perhaps I'm not  
> familiar
> enough with the api provided.
>
> Not sure if its fair to classify this as a bug but I do think that it is
> reasonable to expect developers to be able to programatically drop down a
> combo box list to the same effect as if a user had done so and to be able
> to do so without much setup i.e. I think it would be nice to call one
> specific method.
>
> I'm attaching a simple test UI with steps labelled on the UI that  
> recreate
> the problem.
> I have also attached a pic of the UI in case folks are scared of loading
> the .st file :)
>
> thanks in advance,
>
>