I investigated various means of limiting the duration we maintain the popupDate field, but it ended up being more straightforward to fix this with ICE-4184, of instead better saving popupDate, rather than trying to discard it.

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icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\selectinputdate\SelectInputDate.java

1) Open popup calendar for any row that doesnot have a date in it
2) Make sure no date is highlighted in the calendar and the time selected is current time
3) Select a date and time & close the calendar
4) The selected date should be displayed in the date input box

The test is failing because condition (4) is not being met.

Test application available at '\repo\qa\trunk\Regression\ICE-4156'.

Last changes from Mark does'nt help in sequence described at beginning.

If user change row data calendar must be reinitialized not restored.

At current moment workaround with setPopupDate(null); onClose is better.

I tried using setPopup(null), as you described, and the component did not function properly. And irrespective of the symptoms you're interested in, the state has to be saved, per row, for the component to work properly. The real fix should be finshed soon.

Better delineated the value from the popupDate.

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icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\selectinputdate\SelectInputDate.java
icefaces\component\src\com\icesoft\faces\component\selectinputdate\SelectInputDateRenderer.java

QA verified it on 1.8.0 RC2 build 1 (tomcat6 + FF2 and IE6 and Opera9.27)

It works fine except that on IE6, the selected drop-down list (month, year, time, AM/PM) items all flicker when there's a click/select on items of the popup calendar.

For the test code, there was some issue of directly using a List or Dates, which was resolved when Mark suggested to use a List of Objects that refer to Dates