flex - don't let the drag icon get out of the drop target

Question

I have a list with itemrenderer with dragEnabled true and dropEnabled true. Now, I am trying to tell flex not to let the dragged item (even the icon indication) leave the drop panel. I don;t care if it stop the dragging or just freezes it as if it was the application border - and I cannot. I tried to stop the dragging on dragExit handler but it seems to ignore it. Does anyone know of a working mechanism to do such? (Flex 4)

thanks

Answer 1

Try on drag exit :

• a setfocus on a stage element other than the item on dragExit
• or a mouseEnabled false on the items

Alternatively you could try listen to mouseOut event and try to the same.