Combobox setValue

In a combobox the selectionChangedEvent is called when a value is selected from the combobox and also when setValue method is used. There is always a requirement that the event should be called only when a value is selected from the list than when programmatically setting the value.

One idea i was given when going through Sencha forums is to disable all the events before setting the value and then enabling them back again (this is a little weird, as this requirement comes up most of the time. They should probably try to make it a little easier than that)..

But anyways it works for now.

  1: combobox.disableEvents(true);
  2: combobox.setValue();  //set a value
  3: combobox.enableEvents(true);

Editor Grid and checkboxSelectionModel

I experienced that the check box selection model and the editor grid does not go along well if we are clicking on the row rather than only the check box. The problem is that the row gets selected and deselected when the editable cells are changed.

I needed to enable the select only when we click the first 2 columns and just editable on the rest.

A solution is to override handleMouseDown

  1: @Override
  2: protected void handleMouseDown(GridEvent e) {
  3: 	if (checkBoxOnly || checkBoxSynchronized) {
  4:         	if (e.getColIndex() < 3 && e.getEvent().getButton() == NativeEvent.BUTTON_LEFT) { 
  6: 	        	M m = listStore.getAt(e.getRowIndex());
  7: 			if (m != null) {
  8: 		        	if (isSelected(m)) {
  9: 					doDeselect(Arrays.asList(m), false);
 10: 				} else {
 11: 					doSelect(Arrays.asList(m), true, false);
 12: 				}
 13: 			}
 14: 		}
 15: 	} else {
 16: 	       super.handleMouseDown(e);
 17: 	}
 18: }

changing the color of the text in the combobox’s Textbox

Haa!! extjs has changed it named to sencha. Well I might be the last one mentioning it :).

Well coming back to what i was about to write in this post. I had this requirement of coloring the text in the combobox's text box. As i searched for it, i could not find a better solution than this one.

The list values in the combobox can be color coded using the template.

combobox.setSimpleTemplate("<font color='{color}'>{name}</font>");

Now if a particular item from the list is selected that has a different color, the color changes to black in the textBox. Inorder to maintain the color of the list item, I tried something like this.

  1: combobox.addSelectionChangedListener(new SelectionChangedListener<ModelData>() {
  2: 	@Override
  3: 	public void selectionChanged(SelectionChangedEvent<ModelData> se) {
  4: 		if(deptjob.getValue() != null ) {
  5:               		ModelData md = combobox.getValue();
  6: 			combobox.el().getChild(0).setStyleAttribute("color", md.get("color").toString());
  7: 		}
  8: 	}
  9: });

Any ideas on a better way in solving this problem is appreciated.