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Re: Combo unselect item [message #462126 is a reply to message #462109] |
Thu, 06 October 2005 21:46 |
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Originally posted by: friederich.kupzog.de
Hi, my quite large database applications all make use of the "empty
item" and users are absolutely ok with that.
Regards,
Friederich
Brad Reynolds wrote:
> I tried that but they (functional people) didn't want the end user to be
> able to enter a value. The text box gives the user the feel that they
> can type in anything which in our case isn't true. They just need to be
> able to deselect the value and we end up adding this empty item to do so
> everywhere. I thought that others might have this issue as well outside
> our company but maybe not.
>
> Steve Northover wrote:
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>> MAybe you should be using an editable combo box then. A read only
>> combo box
>> can't show text that is not one of the items.
>>
>> "Brad Reynolds" <bradleyjames@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:dhfkt7$3p1$1@news.eclipse.org...
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>>> We have the need for the end user to unselect the selection in a
>>> READ_ONLY | DROP_DOWN Combo. We can accomplish this by adding an empty
>>> item in Combo but it has a valid index instead of -1 which would be no
>>> selection. Has anyone found a better way around this? It would be
>>> great if the Combo supported a style that would create this item for us.
>>> Also by having an empty item it forces the indexes between the list
>>> and our model to be off by 1.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brad
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Friederich Kupzog
Elektronik & Software
Neusser Str. 5-7
50670 Köln
Tel 0241 160696-1
Fax 0221 726670
www.kupzog.de/fkmk
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