[Javascript] "Multiple" Select controls and popup objects.

[Peter Brunone]

In a word: dang.

   That REALLY takes some pressure off me in a few key areas, especially since some of the proprietary IE functionality in EasyListBox would be hard to duplicate in the standards-compliant Mozilla.  If their dropdowns already play nice, that's fantastic.

Thanks, man.

Peter

Original Message:
>From: Hakan Magnusson <hakan at backbase.com>

>Brunonedude,
>
>Regarding the tearing through/graphical artifacts specific to (select) 
>form elements; No. All tests I've done points to the theory that this is 
>a Internet Explorer/Window component error.
>
>Kind regards,
>H
>
>Peter Brunone wrote:
>> H,
>> 
>>     I don't have my home dev machine in front of me or I'd test instead of asking, but... don't the Netscape/Mozilla family browsers have the same problem with select elements?
>> 
>>     If not, then that makes a few of my upcoming tasks a lot easier...
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> Original Message:
>> 
>>>From: Hakan Magnusson <hakan at backbase.com>
>> 
>>>>This is a win/ie5.5+ issue only so anyone offended by that can switch 
>>>>off now if they like ;)
>>>
>>>I'm hit! I'm hit! ;)
>>>
>>>Ok, I know I've been rambling far too much on how I feel about That 
>>>Browser, but this is a known issue (if I understood you correctly). My 
>>>guess is that Internet Explorer is using some operating system widgets 
>>>for the form elements, since dragging/scrolling/clipping form elements 
>>>(the select box is the most "famous") often "tears through" and floats 
>>>above other elements.
>>>
>>>If there's a solution for this rendering problem then it is beyond my 
>>>knowledge. I've always made DHTML-dropdowns instead of using the built 
>>>in select tag whenever I need it.
>>>
>>>Kind regards,
>>>H
>>>
>>>Matt Barton wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>This is a win/ie5.5+ issue only so anyone offended by that can switch 
>>>>off now if they like ;)
>>>> 
>>>>I have a menu system in my app which lives inside a popup object [i.e. 
>>>>window.createPopup()] which has been behaving just fine for months.  
>>>>However today I noticed an odd quirk which I can't explain, let alone 
>>>>work around.
>>>> 
>>>>When the popup menu appears it covers a set of html frames which can 
>>>>each contain a variety of html controls.  When one of the controls 
>>>>covered by the popup is a <select multiple="true"> control then when 
>>>>moving the mouse over the popup I can see the multiple select underneath 
>>>>flickering, as if the popup is disapearing then being redrawn very very 
>>>>quickly.  It seems to be when the mouse moves over the borders of table 
>>>>cells on the popup.  There's no onMouseMove, onMouseOver or 
>>>>onMouseOut events defined anywhere and there's no problem with any other 
>>>>kind of control (even <select> controls which aren't "multiple").
>>>> 
>>>>Anyone hazard any ideas? It the moment I'm putting it down to (yet 
>>>>another) unspecific vagary of how IE handles (or not) select controls.  
>>>>This is rapidly becoming my favourite pet hate... grrr.
>>>> 
>>>>Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>>Matt