TreeGrid funny behavior in GWT Shell

[ebardet]

Hello there,

First a long standing ovation for SmartGWT. Very impressive.

I am trying to add a simple TreeGrid within a SectionStackSection, this SSS is embedded in a HLayout which is also embedded in a VLayout. This works fine when viewing through Firefox but not in GWT Shell. For instance setShowRollOver does not work or it does not seem to receive click events (SelectionChangedHandler) whereas all this works fine in FF. Have you noticed the same?

I run GWT on Mac OS X 10.5.5 if that helps.

[sjivan]

Another user from the early adopters group experienced a similar issue that was specific to OS X hosted mode. I just got a mac so will be able to investigate this issue. Will keep you posted on this.

Thanks for your patience.

Sanjiv

[hawkettc]

Hi Sanjiv - just wondering if you could provide an update for this issue - if you think this might be a while, I will probably need to change development environment, as at the moment OS X development doesn't work in hosted mode. That means ~ 1 minute turnaround per change to the SmartGWT code due to compilation, and no (eclipse) debugging. Update appreciated - thanks,

Colin

[ebardet]

Attn Sanjiv, I kind of agree with Colin. Let us know if we'd rather move to another dev env.

Attn Colin, couldn't you remote debug your app?

[sjivan]

Sorry for not getting back earlier. I haven't had much time to look into this but its important. I've logged an issue for this : http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/issues/detail?id=32 and will provide an update soon (probably early next week).

Sanjiv

[hawkettc]

Remote Debugging

Thanks Sanjiv. Worth noting that a recent nightly build increased compile time approx x2, which is welcome in the sense that the compilation is doing more work producing smaller output, but increases the difficulty of working around this issue.

Hi Ebardet, not entirely sure I understand - I use the debugger to debug the SmartGWT code as it executes in hosted mode. Since I can't drive my UI in hosted mode on OS X, this approach is closed to me - perhaps I am missing something - could you elaborate? If you are referring to remote debugging the server, my server is the google app engine development environment - so a (non-java) server external to the eclipse development environment. If I could remote debug this, it wouldn't help me with the UI - I currently have to compile pretty javascript and use firebug, which itself is fine, but the ~2min compilation per code change is a killer.

Thanks,

Colin

[sjivan]

Thanks Sanjiv. Worth noting that a recent nightly build increased compile time approx x2, which is welcome in the sense that the compilation is doing more work producing smaller output, but increases the difficulty of working around this issue.

Can you verify that the compile slowdown occurred between builds 11-24-2008 and 12-01-2008? It was in build 12-01-2008 that I separated the skins and the core SC files as separate modules, which I inherit from the SmartGwt module. It seems odd that the GWT compile time would increase some much by separating the modules. I'll try to experiment a bit by testing both scenarios as well and might have to check with the GWT team on this if it turns out to be the case.

Thanks,
Sanjiv

[hawkettc]

Hi Sanjiv - I believe it was that build - admittedly I assumed that was the cause and didn't do a great deal of analysis into the reason. Unfortunately I am away from my normal system until the middle of December - but I'll check again then. I realise that isn't a great deal of help though - apologies. I'm not too worried by compile time usually, as it isn't a frequent activity when hosted mode is up and running. Thanks,

Colin