DateItem 9.0p

[yavery]

Hi,

Another issue we faced with 9.0p is with the DateItem popup calendar. Sometimes, for unknown
reasons and in an intermittent way, the popup calendar displays in a stretched window and shows
up distorted (see attached screenshot).

We haven't been able to isolate the reason/cause for this to happen, but we did note that it was
reproduced with both Chrome and Firefox. The fact we didn't observe this on IE doesn't mean IE
doesn't also have the issue, we just didn't get the misfortune to observe it on that browser family.

We are also not using any derived class for DateItem nor are we doing anything "funky" beside
having these DateItem fields part of a DynamicForm's fields collection.

We never observed this with 8.3p. Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks,

[Isomorphic]

This is likely to be something like a CSS style that is affecting this control unintentionally.

Next time you see it happen we would recommend popping open the Firefox or Chrome developer tools and looking at the CSS styles being applied to the element. If you see something that isn't a stock SmartClient style, that's probably the culprit.

[yavery]

Ok. We'll keep an eye open for whenever this shows up again.

Thanks,

[couimet]

Hello guys,

Using Firefox, we were able to reproduce the issue on the following page:
http://www.smartclient.com/#dataBoundCalendarFS

NOTE: the issue will show up when you set your browser's zoom to something greater than 100%.

Click on the top-left calendar icon to have the little pop-up calendar show up.

Go straight to March 2009. This month spreads on 5 lines.

Then, use the month-left-arrow to get to February 2009. This month spreads on 4 lines.

You'll notice the popup initially remains the same height (4 rows are drawn inside the area used by 5 rows).

Now, if you play around with the mouse (just moving it around - no clicking) like this:
mouse over dates, "Today" or "Cancel" button and "outside" of the calendar popup and you'll notice the calendar will progressively decrease in size until it reaches the appropriate size for 4 weeks.

Please tell us if we can help with the investigation.

-C

[Isomorphic]

Sorry, due to a large number of intractable browser bugs, it's not currently possible to support browser-level zoom. We'll revisit this in the future as various browser bugs are fixed.