PM52980: Custom RUI Widgets set with targetWidget other than Div or GridLayout cannot be moved within the RUI designer view

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 3 (8.0.1.3) for 8.0.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• 1.Version (with iFixes and TestFixes).
  Environment: windows
  Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer
  
  Program Version    :  8.0.1.2
  2.Problem Description. Things that you have tried to resolve.
  Custom RUI Widgets set with targetWidget other than Div or
  GridLayout cannot be moved within the RUI designer view.
  
  Errors observed within the RUI designer:
  a) The Widget cannot be moved within the layout after dragging
  it in place from the palette.
  b) Trying to selecting the widget within the design view is not
  possible as the selection skips instead to the container.
  
  c) Example of targetwidget definition
  handler StuckWidget type RUIWidget {targetWidget =
  dojoTextField, onConstructionFunction =
  start,cssFile='css/TestRuiDesignerTargetWidget.css', @VEWidget{
  category = 'Custom' }}
      dojoTextField DojoTextField{};
  d) Change the StuckWidget code to reflect the targetWidget to
  div ie
  handler StuckWidget type RUIWidget {targetWidget = ui,
  onConstructionFunction = start,
  cssFile='css/TestRuiDesignerTargetWidget.css', @VEWidget{
  category = 'Custom' }}
   ui Div{ children = [dojoTextField] };
   dojoTextField DojoTextField{};
  e) In design view now you will see you can indeed then select
  and move the widget around.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  When the users creates a widget and sets its targetWidget to
  a dojo widget, and then drag-anddrops it onto the Visual
  Editor, the user cannot select the widget in the Visual
  Editor and outline.
  

Problem conclusion

• The Visual Editor needed to get the widget location and size
  after widget loaded. The Dojo widget is loading
  asynchronusly. Before the Dojo widget is rendered, a dom is
  created as a placeholder whose size is 0.
  
  When the target widget is set to a Dojo widget, the
  container widget will point to the placeholder. So the
  widget info returned to the Visual Editor is incorrect.
  
  This fix will make the Dojo widget transfer the correct info
  to the container widget when it is loaded.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R801 PSN

     UP