IE combobox / datefield width error (width: -25px invalid)

[oliver.misch]

Here a stacktrace from development mode, using GXT 3.0.3:

13:27:22.226  [ERROR] [woe] (Style.java:-1) 2013-01-21 13:27:22,226 [WARN ] An Error Occured:  com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (Error)  @com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style::setPropertyImpl(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)([string:  'width', string: '-25.0px']): Ungültiges  Argument.
com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (Error)  @com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style::setPropertyImpl(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)([string:  'width', string: '-25.0px']): Ungültiges Argument.
    at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.invokeJavascript(BrowserChannelServer.java:249)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpaceOOPHM.doInvoke(ModuleSpaceOOPHM.java:136)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNative(ModuleSpace.java:571)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.invokeNativeVoid(ModuleSpace.java:299)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.JavaScriptHost.invokeNativeVoid(JavaScriptHost.java:107)
     at com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style$.setPropertyImpl$(Style.java)
    at  com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style$.setProperty$(Style.java:2030)
    at  com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style$.setPropertyPx$(Style.java:2039)
    at  com.sencha.gxt.theme.base.client.field.TriggerFieldDefaultAppearance.onResize(TriggerFieldDefaultAppearance.java:223)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.cell.core.client.form.TriggerFieldCell.setSize(TriggerFieldCell.java:305)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.cell.CellComponent.onResize(CellComponent.java:368)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.Component.setPixelSize(Component.java:848)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.ResizeContainer.applyLayout(ResizeContainer.java:97)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.form.FieldLabel.doLayout(FieldLabel.java:513)
     at  com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.ResizeContainer$2.execute(ResizeContainer.java:41)
     at  com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.SchedulerImpl$Task$.executeScheduled$(SchedulerImpl.java:50)
     at  com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.SchedulerImpl.runScheduledTasks(SchedulerImpl.java:228)
     at  com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.SchedulerImpl.flushFinallyCommands(SchedulerImpl.java:327)
     at com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.exit(Impl.java:266)
    at  com.google.gwt.core.client.impl.Impl.entry0(Impl.java:257)
    at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at  sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at  sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodAdaptor.invoke(MethodAdaptor.java:103)
    at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.MethodDispatch.invoke(MethodDispatch.java:71)
    at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.invoke(OophmSessionHandler.java:172)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.reactToMessages(BrowserChannelServer.java:293)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:547)
     at  com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:364)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

[Colin Alworth]

oliver.misch, the error message is just the symptom of a bug in the layout system. We can of course fix all exceptions by just wrapping them in try/catch blocks to prevent them from showing error messages, but the real fix is to change the layout so that it makes sense.

In the original bug here, ContentPanel was misbehaving when it tried to render collapsed. Unfortunately, there isn't enough info in your stack trace to see if there is a ContentPanel present, or if there is another container with the same sort of issue that we missed.

If we are getting enough issues around this, we might try the try/catch solution to clean this up, but that really should be a last resort - it is always better to treat the underlying issue.