Picklist blocks next mouse action

[rn]

Hi everyone,

Considering the SmartGWT showcase and various controls for Forms: the https://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt...ntrols_various.

If you have opened the picklist of a SelectItem or a ComboBoxItem, then you have to click once outside it, before you can click on another component. As long as the picklist is open, hovering on other components does not activate their respective hover state. This is true for all the cases in the Showcase, EXCEPT for the first one with the ComboBoxItem. When the picklist is showing, I can still hover over the checkbox above or I can press a button, which responds immediately to my click.

In our case, we have a multi select SelectItem with a button next to it. Our customers complain about that when the picklist is showing, they need to click two times on the button, before the button actually responds. First click on the button hides the picklist, and the second click "activates" the button and fires the click event.

I have attached two screenshots. Screen1 shows when the first comboboxitem is active and the picklist is showing, I can still hover over the checkbox above (sorry, the mouse cursor is not displaying). On screen2 the picklist of SelectItem is opened, but I cannot hover over the checkbox.

Is there any way to circumvent this?

Hope my explanation is clear...

Best Regards,
Rasmus

[Isomorphic]

These are actually different controls (sorry for the confusing labelling) - the first is a ComboBoxItem, and the second is a SelectItem. We are following typical OS/browser behavior for comboBoxes vs selects here, and it would be a bad idea

[rn]

Thank you very much for your response.

Considering the first ComboBoxItem and the following two SelectItem in the Showcase, then we (and our customers) fail to see why there is a difference in the behaviour of the picklist. Obviously, there are differences to how the form items handle input (e.g. you can type directly into a ComboBoxItem), but as to why the picklist is blocking the UI in one case and not the other, is hard to explain to our customers. Perhaps you can provide us with an explanation or link to why there is a difference?

[Isomorphic]

As we indicated, we are following a convention seen in OS and browser controls. Feel free to verify this by looking at various examples of OS and browser behavior.