Add a change event listener to the combo box and dispatch a custom event to the owner to update the data provider.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jonbehr" <jonb...@...> wrote: > > I have a combobox as an itemEditor in a datagrid. I have an event listener on > the datagrid (DataGridEvent.ITEM_EDIT_END) that calculates the values in > adjacent datagrid cells based on the value that has been selected in the > combobox. This all works fine. > > The one area that I am struggling with however, is to force the combobox to > immediately commit the selected value to the datagrid. At the moment, if a > user selected a value from the combo, its necessary to lose focus (i.e. click > into another cell on the datagrid, or elsewhere in the app) for the value to > be committed (and its at this point that the ITEM_EDIT_END event is fired). > > Ideally, once the user has selected an item in the combo itemeditor, Iw would > like that that the combo retains focus (i.e. remains slightly raised above > the datagrid cell), but that the value is immediately committed and an event > is fired off. > > Is this possible? >
