[Issue] ScreenSpan & ZIndex

[jmichelgarcia]

Hey Isomorphic,

I've just ran into an issue here.

Some months ago, I've read a thread here about including SmartGWT applications in Portlets.

I was told to use the setZIndex(0) method on my outmermost layout to solve some problems concerning overlapping menus.

It did the trick, but now I have some problem with the ScreenSpan.

Here's a standalone test case, run it and try to select Pamela's age in the expansion component. As you can see, the screen span have a higher index than the selectItem causing this behavior.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers.

final ListGrid myGrid = new ListGrid()
		{
			@Override
			protected Canvas getExpansionComponent(ListGridRecord record)
			{
				VLayout layout = new VLayout();
				ListGrid nestedGrid = new ListGrid();
				nestedGrid.setWidth(250);
				nestedGrid.setHeight(150);

				ListGridField name = new ListGridField("name", "Name");
				ListGridField age = new ListGridField("age", "Age");
				age.setCanEdit(true);
				age.setValueMap("1", "2", "3");

				ListGridRecord testRecord = new ListGridRecord();
				testRecord.setAttribute("name", "Pamela");
				nestedGrid.setFields(name, age);

				nestedGrid.addData(testRecord);

				layout.addMember(nestedGrid);

				return layout;
			};
		};
		myGrid.setWidth(300);
		myGrid.setHeight(200);
		myGrid.setCanExpandRecords(true);

		ListGridField person = new ListGridField("person", "Persons");
		ListGridRecord Joseph = new ListGridRecord();
		Joseph.setAttribute("person", "Joseph");

		myGrid.setFields(person);
		myGrid.addData(Joseph);

		myGrid.addDrawHandler(new DrawHandler()
		{

			@Override
			public void onDraw(DrawEvent event)
			{
				[B]myGrid.setZIndex(0);[/B]

			}
		});

		myGrid.draw();

Using Firefox 5 & SmartGWT 2.5 & GWT 2.3
Windows XP

[jmichelgarcia]

anyone have an idea or workaround?

thks

[Isomorphic]

You can call 'setModalEditing(false)' as a workaround. Our engineering team will look into whether there's framework bug here to consider.

[jmichelgarcia]

Hey Isomorphic,

Do you guys have a bug tracker system like Mantis or something else where people could follow what are the related issues state ?

This to ask, if the issue mentioned in this post was corrected in SGWT 3.0

Thanks.

[IGx89]

Probably too late to help you, but for others who made find this through Google like I did, I found a solution to this problem. The root element that your UI is in, the element whose parent is the body element, has to have a z-index that's greater than the z-index of the screenspan element. In my case the screenspan element had a z-index of 199xxx, so I set the z-index of my UI's root element (a GWT-Ext viewport div) to 200000 (and set position:absolute, to activate the z-index). That did the trick for me :)