http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/04/tip-of-the-day-how-to-create-a-prompt-field-on-your-mxcombobox/ AIR, Flex / Flash, FMS, PushButton, Game... Developer Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/04/tip-of-the-day-how-to-create-a-prompt-field-on-your-mxcombobox/comment-page-1/#comment-2201 Gareth Arch Mon, 18 May 2009 03:13:21 +0000 http://blog.natebeck.net/?p=772#comment-2201 Hmmm...I never knew that you could ctrl-click on the combobox to reset that value to -1. I knew about the prompt, but wow...learn something new every day :) Sounds like that might be a nice custom control though. DeselectableComboBox - onclick - if ( selectedItem == currentTarget ), either throw a ctrl-click or just set selectedIndex = -1. Hmmm…I never knew that you could ctrl-click on the combobox to reset that value to -1. I knew about the prompt, but wow…learn something new every day Sounds like that might be a nice custom control though. DeselectableComboBox – onclick – if ( selectedItem == currentTarget ), either throw a ctrl-click or just set selectedIndex = -1.

]]> http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/04/tip-of-the-day-how-to-create-a-prompt-field-on-your-mxcombobox/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Tom Sammons Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:13:01 +0000 http://blog.natebeck.net/?p=772#comment-1247 Don't forget to add the "selectedIndex=-1" setter if you use the MXML method to ensure that the prompt is displayed if your dataProvider is populated through a service result handler function. And also that the prompt value can't be selected again after you select another value unless your user knows how to deselect (control-click) -- not necessarily intuitive to all -- or they have another means of resetting the selected value to -1 via an actionscript function. Don’t forget to add the “selectedIndex=-1″ setter if you use the MXML method to ensure that the prompt is displayed if your dataProvider is populated through a service result handler function. And also that the prompt value can’t be selected again after you select another value unless your user knows how to deselect (control-click) — not necessarily intuitive to all — or they have another means of resetting the selected value to -1 via an actionscript function.

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