On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM, David Coleman < david_coleman_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. Mike's most recent mail (mentioning that ComboBoxes have > changed nearly every other release) made remember something that i have had > sitting around in my personal files for some time. It is a tweak to the > combo box that allows you to have a blank item as the first item, allowing > you to de-select the selected item and reset the combo to empty. It has a > configurable value (which defaults to -1) and a configurable label to show > in the list (in case you want it to say "choose a city" or something else > more context appropriate). > > I'm attaching the file. Maybe it is something worth considering. It is a > behavior that is definitely lacking when you compare flex to other form > entry UI/UX approaches. The ability to "cancel" your selection in a combo > box is rather basic and I've always been mildly surprised that it has never > been introduced. > > Cheers! > David > Hi David, First of all welcome to the group! I don't see your file attachment, but just wanted to ask is that for an MX component or Spark? Reason I ask is I believe there is a prompt property on the Spark component to set a message, or make it blank, when selectedIndex equals -1. Just throwing that out there... -- Omar Gonzalez s9tpep...@apache.org
