Hello Carey,
When you instantiated the dropdown did you bind it to the bizobj?...ie
something like...
statesdropdown = your_dDropdownList(self, DataSource = bizobject,
DataField = "state_id_field")
Larry Long
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> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 2:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [dabo-users] Very Simple dropdownlist
>
> My apologies if this goes out twice. I posted to the nabble
> forum before realizing I needed to subscribe to the mailing list.
>
> ## As Posted On Nabble ##
>
> 1st off, thanks to the developers of dabo. I'm a n00b to
> python, wxpython and dabo. With the help of this forum and
> the step by step guide I have managed to get everything in
> said guide working as expected. I've even managed some simple
> modifications as I learn dabo et al. There's one modification
> I just can't wrap my head around that I will want to use once
> I start developing my own app.
>
> Here's the problem. In the step by step the input field for
> stateprov is currently set to a dTextBox. I would like to
> change this to a dDropdownList.
> I don't want to set up another db table just to do this (I've
> got populating a drop down from the db down no problem). I
> just want a static drop down list that will add the selected
> state from the drop down list to the stateprov field of the
> client table of the database (MySQL) on save. (one mod I
> managed was an Add Client form)
>
> I've looked at the test in the uiwx/dDropdownList.py file and
> have created the following via the CD. The code is located in
> the ClientAddForm-code.py
> file:
>
> def afterInit(self):
> #def initProperties(self): ## Commented out
> locations = ({"state": "Ak", "iid": 1},
> {"state": "Ga", "iid": 2},
> {"state": "Tx", "iid": 3})
>
> choices = []
> keys = {}
> for location in locations:
> choices.append("%s" % (location['state']))
> keys[location["iid"]] = len(choices) - 1
> self.Choices = choices
> self.Keys = keys
> self.ValueMode = "key"
>
> The drop list with choices displays in the form no problem,
> but when I save to the database the selection is not added to
> the stateprov field.
>
>
> H E L P ! ! !
>
> Thanks in advance
> Carey
>
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