[flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-05-17 Thread lieut_data
And yet another workaround, IMHO cleaner, is to set the editable = false immediately after setting enabled = false in actionscript. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Brendan Meutzner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another workaround is to nest the ComboBox in a Canvas container and then > enabl

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-05-05 Thread Brendan Meutzner
Another workaround is to nest the ComboBox in a Canvas container and then enable/disable the Canvas... you can see a tiny bit of disabled coloring bleeding over the radius of the ComboBox corners, but you've really gotta be looking. Brendan On 20 Mar 2007 11:06:03 -0700, Paul Whitelock <[EMAIL

[flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Whitelock
I just discovered why the second ComboBox was not affected -- it's because I was disabling the ** Form item ** that wraps the ComboBox and not the ComboBox itself. I changed my code so that I enable and disable both ComboBoxes by setting the enabled property for the Form item rather than for the

[flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Whitelock
Thanks Ben, that helped a bit. I have two ComboBoxes on the Form and each had an enabled="false" in the MXML. However, when I removed the enabled="false" from the MXML I was still getting the i-beam and selectable text. In my code I'm also programatically changing the enabled state of the ComboB

[flexcoders] Re: Disabling Selectable Text for a ComboBox

2007-03-20 Thread ben.clinkinbeard
I actually discovered this same issue in my app a few days ago. I also have several other ComboBoxes (including one right next to the problematic one) that don't display the i-beam. After a bit of investigation, it seems that having enabled="false" in the ComboBox's MXML tag (then enabling it at s