The really proper solution is called "why do you need it anyway?" (c)(tm)
:) --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <tr...@...> wrote: > > Maybe the solution is not to bind the selectedItem but set it explicitly? > > > > Tracy Spratt, > > Lariat Services, development services available > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard Rodseth > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: ComboBox not updating > > > > > > Thanks. I should add that my combobox is in use in an item renderer. A > colleague had a similar problem which went away when he switched to a > repeater. > > It's not clear which if any of your modifications will help my use case, but > I'll try some of them. > > Is there a bug we can vote on besides the one you mentioned (11282) ? It > strikes me that comboboxes in forms must be one of the more common use > cases, and it's pretty disappointing that this component is so problematic. > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Dmitri Girski <mite...@gmail. > <mailto:mite...@...> com> wrote: > > > > This is an old story with ComboBox & selectedIndex. It does not count the > fact that binding on SelectedIndex could come well before dataProvider > property assignment, so it simply resets itself every time it has > dataProvider property being updated. > I have rewritten the ComboBox class to make it working properly with > dataProviders. > > http://mitek. > <http://mitek.id.au/blog/2008/10/28/combobox-madness-continues/> > id.au/blog/2008/10/28/combobox-madness-continues/ > http://mitek. > <http://mitek.id.au/blog/2008/08/18/combobox-selecteditem-problem/> > id.au/blog/2008/08/18/combobox-selecteditem-problem/ > http://mitek. <http://mitek.id.au/blog/2008/06/09/unselect-in-combobox/> > id.au/blog/2008/06/09/unselect-in-combobox/ > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > > > --- In flexcod...@yahoogro <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, > Richard Rodseth <rrodseth@> wrote: > > > > The full story is too long to relate and involves the component which has > > given me more grief than any other - ComboBox. I'm pretty sure I > established > > a while ago that there's a bug in using a ComboBox with a bound value for > > selectedIndex. > > > > I have one whose dataprovider (and current selected index) are both highly > > dynamic (changing in response to changes in another combobox). There is a > > circumstance in which the displayed label does not update until you roll > > over the combobox, or sometimes click on it. Is there a brute force way I > > can make it update? I've tried various invalidateXXX methods. > > >
