Extend combobox yourself, add this functionality, it is not difficult. You only need to do it once. And there are components available that do this, I have one that is part of an item renderer, here:
http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&objectI D=767 It is just an example, not a production level component, the main problems are with the renerder part, defining the row-level dataProvider for the combo drop down. Take that out and it gets much simpler. One issue with doing it generically is specifying which property of the ComboBox dataProvider item to use for the match. You may not be matching on the "label". See how I handled it im my example. Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of danielvlopes Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Sugestion for ComboBox component Hello everybody, i want make a sugestion for Adobe Flex Team, and i know some members of Flex team participate here, in my projects when i use combobox to recover data from database and selected item of this combo must be set to the data recorded in database i do loops in entire dataprovider to find the value and your index to use selectedIndex to receive this index. This is very common when you use combo to add and edit data in database and i think everybody need this, why adobe don't incorpore some new method in next release for do this? Something like setSelectedLabe(label:String) ...
