DataGrid Focus Issue with Select Cell When Always Editing

[Jarrod Carlson]

I want a column in my grid that does not correspond to a property of the data. Instead, I want to provide a select box with a list of "Action Items" for this particular row. The user should be able to select an item from the list for a given row and as a result of the selection, some behavior will occur.

The problem is that when I click on a cell of type "dojox.grid.cells.Select" that is set to "alwaysEditing=true", the drop down appears and then immediately closes up again as the surrounding cell gains focus. I can click a second time on the select and I get normal behavior, but the first click is not working properly.

This problem appears in at least Firefox 3.0.7 (Mac), Firefox 3.0.6 (XP) and Internet Explorer 7 (XP). This problem is not present in Safari 3 (Mac) and Google Chrome (XP).

I have attached a modified version of /dojox/grid/tests/test_data_grid_edit.html to demonstrate the problem.

[Jarrod Carlson]

Test file illustrating the "alwaysEditing" problem with Select cells in FF3/IE7

[Jarrod Carlson]

I also noticed that when all the rows have an "alwaysEditable" column, on startup, only the first row gets the formatNode() method of the cell type executed.

formatNode() appears to be my best opportunity to to dojo.connect to the "onchange" event generated by the select box. When only row 0 does formatCell(), rows 1-n do not get to do dojo.connect() on their own editors. Is that by design or by mistake?

[bill]

Will let Bryan pick a milestone for this, probably not 1.3 unless it's a regression.

[ben hockey]

as of dojo 1.7 the attached test case seems to work. jcarlson if the formatNode issue is still a problem then please attach a test case to demonstrate it.

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[bill]

I tried it on 1.7 for both IE8 and FF11/mac. It fails on both of them, meaning that the first time I click on the select, the drop down appears and then immediately closes up again as the surrounding cell gains focus. I can click a second time on the select and I get normal behavior, but the first click is not working properly. (The drop down shows on mouse down and then disappears on mouse up.)

[ben hockey]

ok - i closed it because it works for me on IE 8 (XP) with latest from trunk. i just tried FF now and see that it still fails.

[bill]

DojoX Grid and EnhancedGrid are deprecated in favor of ​dgrid and ​gridx.

You should upgrade your code to use one of those two grids.

We will consider patches to the old DojoX Grid code though.