This is a safe thing to do if and only if the combobox/listbox/etc
is invariant across users. I.e., if the contents (and labels) vary
from user to user (or across time), then you have calling getSelected()
is an error.
Instead, when you set up the CSpSelectable (i.e. combobox, etc) in
the Studio, you can return both the label and the value.
So to reiterate: if combobox is a 'constant' and never changes from
user to user, you can use Bob's technique involving getSelected().
Otherwise, you have to use Nimmi's technique below.
a.
. . . . . .
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At 11:31 AM 9/3/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Nimmi
>
>You are in luck. I built a custom method to do just this.
>Pass the method the name of the item (your combo box) and it will return
>the label for the entry the user selected.
>
>If you have any questions, please let me know.
>Bob Eovine
>General Cinema
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> public String getListItemLabel(String sListItemName)
> {
>
>//-------------------------------------------------------------
> // getListItemLabel(String sListItemName)
>
>//-------------------------------------------------------------
> // DESCRIPTION:
> // THIS METHOD WILL TAKE THE PASSED LIST ITEM NAME (THE
>NAME OF
> // A VISUAL OBJECT ON THE PAGE) AND GET THE COMBO/LIST
>BOX'S CURRENTLY
> // SELECTED LABEL. FOR EXAMPLE, IF I AM WORKING WITH
>THE SHOW TYPE
> // COMBO BOX AND THE REGULAR FEATURE SHOW TYPE IS
>SELECTED, THEN WHEN
> // I GET THE DISPLAY FIELD VALUE, I SHOULD GET 1. WHEN
>THE METHOD GETS THE
> // CURRENTLY SELECTED VALUE'S LABEL, IT SHOULD RECEIVE
>REGULAR FEATURE.
> // AUTHOR: B.EOVINE
> // DATE: 6/04/99
>
>//-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> // CREATE A STRING TO HOLD THE LABEL FOR THE CURRENTLY
>SELECTED ITEM
> String sLabel = new String("");
>
> // GET A HANDLE ON THE CURRENT COMBO BOX PASSED TO THE
>METHOD
> CSpComboBox cmCurrComboBox = (CSpComboBox)
>getDisplayField(sListItemName);
>
> // GET THE CURRENTLY SELECTED ROW
> CSpListItem currSelected = (CSpListItem)
>cmCurrComboBox.getSelected();
>
> // IF IT ISN'T NULL, GET THE LABEL FOR THE ROW
> if (currSelected != null)
> sLabel = currSelected.getLabel();
>
> // RETURN THE ROW LABEL
> return(sLabel);
>
> } // END CUSTOM METHOD getListItemLabel(String sListItemName)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shamdasani Nimmi-ANS004 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:24 AM
>To: 'NetDynamics'
>Subject: [ND] Get the label of the selected item in the Combobox
>
>
>I have a combobox based on a dataobject where column1 is the value of
>the
>item and column2 is the label displayed for that item in the combobox.
>
>I want to get both the value and the label of the selected item. The
>value I
>can get by:
>getDisplayFieldValue("ComboBox1").
>
>How can I get the label of the selected item?
>
>I hope there is a straight way to do this otherwise I will have to
>change my
>combobox's value to contain both column1 and column2 and then extract
>the
>two from the selected item value.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Nimmi Shamdasani
>Motorola Manufacturing Systems
>1299 E. Algonquin Road,
>Schaumburg, IL 60196
>
>
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