How to set value of TimeField?

[patniemeyer]

I have been struggling for hours trying to figure out how to select or set the value of a TimeField (combo box of Time values)...

I have tried setValue( Time ) which sets the display but not the actual value... it just returns null after that.
I have tried select ( Time ) but it does nothing.
I have tried findModel( Time ) followed by select on what it found (which is not null)... does nothing.

I am also wondering why there is no scrolling in the dropdown... I have to push arrow down to move to the next item... and I cannot hold down arrow down - it does not repeat for some reason - meaning that to get through 24 hours of 15 min. intervals I'd have to hit down 96 times...

I am on GXT 2.2 but had the same problems under 2.1.


thanks
Pat

[patniemeyer]

After much hair pulling out I found that by using findModel and then both selecting and setting the value returned by that it now works... At least, it retains the value. I still don't know how useful it is if there is no way to scroll through the large list of values.

[sven]

I am also wondering why there is no scrolling in the dropdown... I have to push arrow down to move to the next item... and I cannot hold down arrow down - it does not repeat for some reason - meaning that to get through 24 hours of 15 min. intervals I'd have to hit down 96 times...

Are you sure you also updated your resources (css files) to GXT 2.2?

[patniemeyer]

I believe that I have all of the relevant gxt 2.2 resources in my path... at least the CSS and images. Is there something you are thinking might be missing or out of date that could be causing the drop down not to work properly?

[sven]

An old css file can course this.

[adamwilmer]

I had the same issues and setting:

timeField.setTriggerAction(ComboBox.TriggerAction.ALL);

got the time scrollbar working again

[sven]

That should not fix the "non scrolling" part. It would fix that only one item is actually shown.