SmartObject issues in 10.2.B

[dwhite]

Hi,
We have an app where one of the pages uses three smart objects. Once we switched to 10.2.B, we noticed that for this particular page, in certain resolutions, the scrollbars won't appear on the side of the page yet there is part of the page that extends down below the screen (i.e. we no longer can see that part of the page).

After playing around with it, it appears to be an issue with the SmartObject control. I can add various other controls to the page, but the moment we have a SmartObject control on the page, scrollbar functionality goes away and we can't get it back.

Has anyne seen this problem before and if so, do you know how to resolve it?

 

[tamhas]

The first basic thing is to realize that any time one is coding SmartObjects one is coding against a framework, not against the language. That framework evolves with each release and, while they try to play nice, there are some very good reasons why it is unreadsonable to expect 100% upward compatibility across releases the way we do with the language. So, the first step when moving to a new Progress version should be to keep with the old SmartObjects framework and make sure that works as expected. This is likely to even be what you first put into production. Then, as time permits you test with the new framework and work out any issues. Expect some.

I can't speak to your specific issues since I eschew SmartObjects, but this is the strategy you should take in upgrades.

 

[dwhite]

Right, that's kind of the boat we're in now...is that we are doing an upgrade to 10.2.B but our existing code is running into this problem. So basically trying to see if anyone else has had a similiar problem and how they resolved it (if it's resolvable).