In Rational Business Developer V9.5, the ComboBox (Dojo) does not work. It has no functionality to where a drop-down list is shown when clicked.

I am simply following the tutorial "Access a Database with EGL Rich UI".

The ComboBox is part of a GridLayout Widget inside a a TitlePane which is inside a GridLayout. 

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks,

Murphy

Hey,

Couple of questions:

a.) When are you seeing this issue?  When running in the "preview" panel?  Or when it is deployed?

b.) What are you using for your render engine (in Preferences->EGL->Rich UI->Appearance

c.) Have you tried running in an external browser?

take care.

Mark

a.) I see this issue in the "Preview" Tab.

b.) My render engine is Microsoft Internet Explorer

c.) I have not tried running in an external browser. The project has not yet been deployed.

Hey Mark,

The ComboBox works fine once I have deployed it. It is only in the "Preview" tab that it did not work. It worked in the Preview tab in previous versions if I remember correctly, so that is where the confusion came from.

Thanks for the help, 

Murphy

Hi,

Not sure what level of Internet Explorer you are using, but I hit a similar issue using IE 11 as my installed IE level.

The response I got was this and it resolved my issue.

This is a known issue of eclipse swt with IE 11 render engine. The solution is to force swt to run in IE 9 mode.

Add below line to eclipse.ini
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=9999

You would need restart RBD after adding this to the eclipse.ini in the root folder of your install directory (non-shared).

You could also install XULrunner (using the instructions if you have a 64 bit install).

The reason you may not have hit this before, was that earlier versions of eclipse (in RBD) used IE 7

Let me know if this resolves it or not.   It did for me.

Hey Mark,

Yes, the instruction worked to do the following:

Add below line to eclipse.ini
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=9999

 

You would need restart RBD after adding this to the eclipse.ini in the root folder of your install directory (non-shared).

My Preview Tab now allows me to use the Dojo ComboBox correctly in RBD V.9.5.

I pasted:

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.IEVersion=9999

 

Into eclipse.ini, which was found in my SDP folder.

Thank you,

Murphy Martin 

Glad to hear it worked for you like it did for me.