TextField.selectAll() not working for me in Vaadin 6.4.8

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework UI
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Hello,

I’m new here. :smiley:

I have updated my Vaadin install from 6.3.4 to 6.4.8. I am trying to use the new TextField.selectAll() API. I am running the server within Eclipse, and have clicked the button to recompile Vaadin with GWT. When I invoke the API, it seems that there is no change in the UI. I.e. there is no text selected. I have tried this with several different browsers. I also tried building my code to a war file and running directly from Tomcat, with the same results. Since I was assuming that it had to do with the way I updated Vaadin, I thought that maybe the new code wasn’t being picked up, but it seems I’ve done everything correctly to update Vaadin.

Any thoughts? Is selectAll working and I have overlooked an important step in updating?

Thanks,
David

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It
seems to work
 just OK. Well, I’m using 6.5.0.pre1 and text field components have been reworked for 6.5, but there should not be difference.

I hope you don’t set the focus elsewhere to some other component.

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It turns out that it does work when I build a war file and deploy it directly to Tomcat and run from it. So it would seem to be an error in how I applied the Vaadin changes in my Eclipse environment. I wish I could figure it out, because I want to be able to run out of Eclipse for debug purposes (and to save the hassle of building the war every time).

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Could it be so that you have an old version of the widgetset in use when running the application from Eclipse? Try to add a ?debug parameter to the URL of the application and check the widgetset version.

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That’s it!

[i]
Vaadin application servlet version: 6.4.8
Widget set is built on version: 6.3.4

Warning: your widget set seems to be built with a different version than the one used on server. Unexpected behavior may occur.
Warning: widgetset version 6.3.4 does not seem to match theme version
inserting load indicator
[/i]

Now I just need to figure out why clicking the button in Eclipse isn’t rebuilding the widget set.

6

Have you tried the “Clean…” and “Clean Tomcat Work Directory…” options from the context menu of your Tomcat in Eclipse?

7

Thanks… it turns out the problem was that I have two widget libraries, and I had to select each of them (*.gwt.xml) and click the button. All is well now. Thanks for your help and patience with a n00b!