URGENT!!Disabled Combo + IE8 MAJOR PROBLEM URGENT!!

Suite and Optimus Suite 5
#1

I have a disabled combo box with value pre-loaded. If I click in the combo box using IE8 the actual value is removed and the combo box shows blank. Of course because it is disabled, I can’t even put the value back manually. Only happens in IE8 not Firefox. (I am only checking on IE ver 8 and not other IE versions). The IE8 debugger shows the following line.

‘Can’t move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus. dhtmlxgrid.excell.combo.js line 11 character 114’.

This is a major problem because most of my work involves using combos in grid to show use readable info rather than numeric codes.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Could you please provide the code of combo initialization to recreate the problem locally

#3

The following defines the grid columns, ids and types

grdCities.setHeader(“Name,Country,Status,Status Reason,Created By,Updated By,Created At, Updated At, CityID,CityDesc CntryID”);
grdCities.setColumnIds(“citydesc,citycountryid,citystatusid,citystatusreason,citycreatedby,cityupdatedby,created_at,updated_at,id,citydesccntryid”);

grdCities.setColTypes(“ed,combo,combo,ro,combo,combo,ro,ro,ro,ro”);

The following is the combo for column ‘citystatusid’
cmbCityStatus = grdCities.getColumnCombo(CityStatusId);
cmbCityStatus.loadXML("/citystatus/loadcitystatuses",setCmbStatusLoaded);
cmbCityStatus.enableFilteringMode(false);
cmbCityStatus.enableOptionAutoPositioning(true);
cmbCityStatus.disable(true);

Thanks for your prompt response and help.

#4

Method disable() can not be applied to the combo in grid. If you want to disable editing for a certain column, you may use onEditCell event:

grdCities.attachEvent(“onEditCell”,function(stage,rowId,columnIndex){
return columnIndex!=CityStatusId; /* CityStatusId is the id of the combo column */
});

#5

That is precisely what I had to do. I only wish that your documentation mentioned that from the beginning. I had to go back and re-do quite a bit of work.

Thanks for the info anyway. One day I intend to write a proper manual for your software. I truly think that your documentation does not do justice to the EXCELLENT software that your provide and is probably loosing you sales and certainly costing you MORE in support.

#6

We do our best to make it more informative. However, it is rather complicated to consider all cases in the documentation.

Regarding combo excell - it is grid editor first of all. And therefore, grid can affect combo functionality.