Possible IE 7 & 8 smartgwt 2.0 + Gwt 2.0 devmode issue

[Farkas]

Hello,

I updated my smartgwt power project to gwt 2.0 and I started running into random application reloads. I have tracked down the issue to a combination of smartGwt ComboBoxItem with a standard gwt item (in our case Image) and history. Basically when you click on the drop down arrow of the combo box the application reloads.
Note: this does not happen in chrome or ff dev mode and works if the code is compiled.

Here's a code sample: (I just modified the hello world 2.0 sample). To recreate the problem start dev mode and click on the drop down box.

	public void onModuleLoad() {

		History.newItem("test");
		
		Image printButton = new Image("skins/Enterprise/images/blank.gif");
		printButton.getElement().getStyle().setProperty("margin", "3");
		printButton.setWidth("16px");
		printButton.setHeight("16px");
		printButton.setTitle("test");

		RootPanel.get().add(printButton);
		
		final DynamicForm form = new DynamicForm();
		form.setWidth(250);

		ComboBoxItem cbItem = new ComboBoxItem();
		cbItem.setTitle("Select");
		cbItem.setHint("<nobr>A simple ComboBoxItem</nobr>");
		cbItem.setType("comboBox");
		cbItem.setValueMap("Cat", "Dog", "Giraffe", "Goat", "Marmoset",	"Mouse");

		form.setFields(cbItem);

		RootPanel.get().add(form);

		History.addValueChangeHandler(new ValueChangeHandler<String>() {

			@Override
			public void onValueChange(ValueChangeEvent<String> event) {
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub

			}
		});
	}

Thanks

[Isomorphic]

Another user who reported a similar problem found that it was due to using the GWT Hyperlink class.

[Farkas]

Isomorphic,

Thank you for the information, however the sample I provided above does not use the gwt hyper link. But as I stated above it seems that using standard gwt controls in a smart gwt application will cause the restarting issue. In our case we use multiple standard gwt controls in the application where replacing them with smart gwt controls is not a feasible workaround. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the devmode plugin or smart gwt code but it is easily reproduce-able.

if you comment out these lines in the sample I provided above the dropdown works properly, otherwise it restarts when clicking.

		Image printButton = new Image("helloworld/sc/skins/Enterprise/images/blank.gif");
		printButton.getElement().getStyle().setProperty("margin", "3");
		printButton.setWidth("16px");
		printButton.setHeight("16px");
		printButton.setTitle("test");

		RootPanel.get().add(printButton);

Thank you for your time

[Hurda]

I have foundt, that some Smart GWT parts are using HTML hyperlinks as backing element and as such they have link to page ending with hash (page.html#)

If I then update the URL (change GWT history) to page.html#something
and If you then click on the link (that is still to page.html#) the app reloads.

Any solutions?