I have a DropDownList inside the itemEditor of my DataGrid. There are enough items in the DropDownList to justify scrollbars. You can see the scrollbars, and the mousewhee
I posted this to Adobe as a bug (SDK-27783, Flex SDK, Spark:DropDownList), which was just closed today. Alex Harui had a good workaround:
Workaround is to change renderer as follows:
I tested this and it solves my problem. Hopefully this will help others as well.