Great thinking. Personally I would love seeing something like the flexlib library being revived. Anybody else? John
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:23 PM, 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 >
