Navigating using up/down arrow keys in IE8 using smartgwt-2.4Pro

[broadsoft]

Our application has a listgrid with grouped records. When trying to navigate through the records using up/down arrow keys we are facing a problem in IE8.

First Issue:
When a record is selected using mouse, cursor starts showing up in the record. We have records with text displaying in 2 lines. when the record is selected, the cursor is placed either of the 2 lines. And now if arrow key is pressed, it takes 2 key presses to navigate to the next record. This is because, the first arrow key press is taken to move to the next line in the record and then the second arrow key press selects the next record.
please refer to attached image_1.

We found the similar issue in the smartGwt showcase for dynamic grouping UI element.

Second Issue:
If the records are grouped into more than one group, then navigating from one group to another is not happening properly in IE8.

After reaching to the last record in the group, pressing down/up arrow keys doesn't take the focus into a record in the next goup. The focus disappears from the current widget and the cursor can be seen somewhere else in the portal.

This could be seen easily in the smart Gwt showcase under dynamic grouping Featured Samples.


Third Issue:

In firefox, though the navigation happens it is not consistent (verified in the smart-gwt showcase). The behavior varies if the records are expanded or collapsed.

[Isomorphic]

On the first and third issues, can you give clear instructions to reproduce the behavior in the (public) Showcase? We'll take a look at the second issue.

[Isomorphic]

The second issue should be resolved as of the next nightly build.

[broadsoft]

The first issue seems to be happening only on my PC. In IE on other systems the cursor problem is not happening.

[broadsoft]

For the Third issue:
There are couple problems seen here.

Scenario 1:

1. All groups are expanded
2. move from bottom to top using up arrow key. The groups will be collapsed.
3. when the first group is collapsed, pressing the down key expands the second group instead of the first one. To expand the first group again the up arrow key should be pressed.
4. Also since the group currenlty having the focus is not highlighted it does not give a clear idea to the user as to where to navigate.


Scenario 2:
When a group is collapsed, to expand it one has to travel to the next group and again move up to expand the collapsed group. Left/right keys donot function to expand the collapsed group.

[broadsoft]

Can you please provide us the location of the nightly builds and also the release/version of the build which has this issue fixed?

[Isomorphic]

smartclient.com/builds. Please use the latest nightly build, and re-test your issue #3, because it seems like it may also have been addressed by changes for #2.

If you plan to do any more investigation into #1, it's probably some IE plugin or extension you have on your machine interfering with the normal operation of IE.