Unable to Add Component in Design Studio Client

[former_member213692]

I have design studio 15.0.6 (64 Bit) installed and it launches fine and I can create new applications, I can even connect data sources to the sample applications, this also works fine.

For some reason though I can't add components, they appear on the left of the screen and I can drag them, but when I drop them nothing happens. This is for every available component.

I found that I had previous installations (14.0.3 I think) but I removed this using the installation history screen.

Can anybody suggest anything for me to check?

Many Thanks

Mike

[reiner_hille-doering · Accepted solution]

This looks to be as if the embedded Internet Explorer is running in a very strange mode.

Could you press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D. This will bring the Designer in to so-called Debug Mode.

Now you see the Java Script Console view. Type there

jQuery.browser

and hit the "Evaluate" button.

What is shown?

Try the same with

navigator.appVersion

and

document.documentMode

[former_member213692 · Accepted solution]

Hi Reiner,

Thanks for the suggestions, the results from the commands are below

jquery.browser

{"Mozilla":true,"version":"11.0","fVersion":11,"mobile":false}

navigator.appVersion

"5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"

document.documentMode

11

Is there anything useful in there?

Thanks

Mike

[reiner_hille-doering · Accepted solution]

Thanks - this looks ok - exactly as on my PC - really strange.

Assuming you have a button called BUTTON_1. Ensure that is has a width (e.g. 80), a height (e.g. 30), a top margin (e.g. 100) and a left margin (e.g. 200). Necessarily change the property in the Properties View.

Then please execute

$("#BUTTON_1_button").offset()

and

$("#BUTTON_1_button").parent().css("position")

.

[former_member213692 · Accepted solution]

Hi Reiner,

I have used one of the ipad templates (the only one I could find with a button) I renamed one of them BUTTON_1 and checked the other bits. I have tried both commands and just get ,<no_result> for both.

Thanks again for your help

Mike

[reiner_hille-doering · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike,

it should be possible to create an empty app and add a Button component to the outline view. Then you should get some results.

Reiner.

[former_member213692 · Accepted solution]

Hi Reiner,

It would appear that the problem was that I didn't have the outline view on, I ticked it and this has solved my problems!

Thanks for your help

Mike

[reiner_hille-doering · Accepted solution]

Excellent - of course Design Studio should also with closed Outline view - this means you found a new bug. We'll fix is asap, but in the meantime it is good to know that the Outline View should remain open.

[mike_howles4 · Accepted solution]

This bug has been around a while  Seemed specific to certain machines, oddly.  Glad to hear it's on your list!

[reiner_hille-doering · Accepted solution]

A colleague just fixed it, let's see if it makes it into SP1.

As it turned out it is not happening on specific machines - but was simply caused that once in the past the Outline view was closed.

[mike_howles4 · Accepted solution]

That was quick!    I may be confusing the one I'm thinking of with another one that dated back to like 1.3 or so, I had weird problems when Outline View was closed, OR in a separate tab vs split layout.  I can no longer reproduce that one on 1.5 so looks like it's not a problem any more.  Also I noticed that APS no longer tries to show up when a hidden component is selected which caused callRuntimeHandler to mess up.  All great UX improvements, thanks!

[sakirkha_pathan · Accepted solution]

Hi Reiner,

I am trying out v1.4 first time and running local mode.

Facing similar issue as reported in thread i.e. not able to add component to application.

Created new application, after a moment it gives me dialogue "do you want to open or save web.htm"

and when i click open - separate browser opens.

When I tried per you suggestion

jQuery.browser <evaluate>

<no result>

Can you suggest how to resolve this?

Regards, Sakir

[TammyPowlas · Accepted solution]

Sakir - this is a closed thread; please create a new thread (after searching) and reference this thread. Thank you

[Former Member]

Same error for me

jQuery.browser

{"msie":true,"version":"9.0","fVersion":9,"mobile":false}

navigator.appVersion

"5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)"

document.documentMode

9

[Former Member]

Hi

Just a thought ,Did you try right click on layout and selecting a component ? Sometimes Drag and drop may have a problem .

Thanks

[former_member213692]

Hi Karthik,

Thanks for the suggestion, I have tried right clicking on the layout and I get no response at all.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Mich,

I would suggest reinstalling the product again.

Nick Wilson

[former_member213692]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the suggestion, I have given that a go but still the same issue. Any other ideas?

Thanks

Mike