Drop-down box not wide enough for layers

[jonathan-wcc]

The drop-down box that contains a list of layers isn't wide enough to show the entire layer description. This is a problem because I have two layers with almost the same name but that is different at the end. See attached.

[ahocevar]

You should se the full layer name on hover.

[jonathan-wcc]

Sorry, just tried it but can't see any. No tooltip or anything. Is this implementation specific?

[ahocevar]

Your code should have a line

Ext.QuickTips.init();

Then it should work out of the box.

[justb4]

This was already as the very first line of code in the App init (this is the App Jonathan is using via Heron), which autocreates all components, including GXP's:
(Heron.layout contains a component definition tree with xtypes etc):

  Heron.App = function() {

  return {
    create : function() {
        Ext.QuickTips.init();

        if (Heron.layout.renderTo || Heron.layout.xtype == 'window') {
            // Render topComponent into a page div element or floating window
            Heron.App.topComponent = Ext.create(Heron.layout);
        } else {
            // Default: render top component into an ExtJS ViewPort (full screen)
            Heron.App.topComponent = new Ext.Viewport({
                id  :"hr-topComponent",
                layout: "fit",
                hideBorders: true,

                // This creates the entire layout from the config !
                items: [Heron.layout]
            });
        }
    },

It is a bit vague what happens in the Ext.form.ComboBox from which the LayerCombo is derived. There are issues with listWidth, especially when box population is dynamic. See e.g.
https://www.google.nl/search?q=extjs+combobox+width+problem
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459221/extjs-ext-combobox-autosize-over-existing-content

For other layer dropdowns Heron uses a LayerCombo class with special code for the resizing problem.
This took quite some time to figure out:
https://code.google.com/p/geoext-viewer/source/browse/trunk/heron/lib/widgets/LayerCombo.js
Maybe this is of help.

[ahocevar]

Ah right, I see now that the qtip for combo entries is used in the Add Layers dialog, but not in the layers combo of the QueryPanel: https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/src/script/plugins/AddLayers.js#L496.

A pull request to add this to the QueryPanel would be gladly accepted.

[jonathan-wcc]

You two seem to have it in hand, but a further observation - most of the drop-down boxes are of suitable width, there's only two that aren't, at least in Heron:

The layer-list in QueryBuilder, and the the operator list in QueryBuilder - you can see the later on the opengeo demo when using the "between" operator - http://suite.opengeo.org/geoexplorer/composer/