[dojox.form] MultiComboBox fails to start

[dante]

An error:

[Exception... "'Error: dojox.form.MultiComboBox template:nameAttrSetting' when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)" location: "<unknown>" data: no]

Looks like the name attribute in the template is causing issues?

[bill]

That gets set in postMixInProperties() in dijit... maybe you are missing a this.inherited() call?

[bill]

Oh nevermind.... it's this weird architecture with ComboBoxMixin where the parent class is required to have it's own postMixInProperties call, like this:

postMixInProperties: function(){
	// this.inherited(arguments); // ??
	dijit.form.ComboBoxMixin.prototype.postMixInProperties.apply(this, arguments);
	dijit.form.ValidationTextBox.prototype.postMixInProperties.apply(this, arguments);
},

I think this is a holdover from before we understood how this.inherited() worked, ie that it called all the superclass and mixin functions.

[Douglas Hays]

(In [16775]) Fixes #8716. Changed ComboBox? and FilteringSelect? to make use of this.inherited.

[bill]

(In [16783]) Just fixing some comments related to [16775], refs #8716.