Maybe someone who has actually done this will be more help, but I suspect that your could use the "selection" manager and or property to manipulate the text selection and cursor position.
Finding the best event to handle this might be tricky. I would expect there to be a way to programaticall open the drop list too, but I have not dug into the docs to find out how. This sounds like the AutoComplete component. Perhaps there will be code in there that might be of use. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valdhor Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: ComboBox edit field selection when populated Forgot to ask: Also, how do I get the combobox to popup its list when the combobox populates with the returned items. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "valdhor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a combobox that is unpopulated on open but is editable. As the > user types, I check the length of the text field and at a certain > point I fire off a RemoteObject call to the server. This returns a > list of items that match what the user enters. Great, this bit works. > > Now, I want to populate the combobox with this list which works great > BUT I want the textfield to still be the same and to have the cursor > at the end of the text so the user can keep typing and narrow down the > returned items. > > What happens is that the combobox populates with the returned items, > and the editable field becomes the first item returned. Now, I can set > the first item of the dataprovider to what the user had typed so far > but when the combobox populates, this first item is selected so the > user types over everything he has just typed. > > How do I get this to not be selected and the cursor at the end of the > text? >
