I'm still a little hazy on when reset is called on forms, but you may want to try moving marketing = marketingItems;
to the forms constructor, so when the form is created the first time its holding the default values. And inside the reset method: marketing = null; -David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wiebe de Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: Multibox problem when defaulted all on > I am having a problem with multibox. I need to have a set of checkboxes to > default on in my form. I found and followed Ted Husted's "Struts Tip #7 > <http://husted.com/struts/tips/007.html> - Use Multibox to manage > checkboxes" and everything works well, except in one condition explained > below. > > > > When everything is defaulted on, and the user checks off the boxes but > leaves at least one checked on, everything works as planned. However, if all > the boxes are defaulted on (as in the code below) and the user checks all > the boxes off, the marketing array is not updated. In this case, the form > ends up telling me that the checkboxes are all on. > > > > How do I get it to work properly in this situation? > > > > ----- > > Form: > > > > public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) { > > ... > > marketing = marketingItems; > > } > > > > private String[] marketing = {}; > > private String[] marketingItems = > {"accountHolder","user2","user3","user4","user5"}; > > public String[] getMarketing() { return this.marketing; } > > public void setMarketing(String[] marketing) { this.marketing = marketing; } > > > > ----- > > Jsp: > > > > <html:multibox property="marketing" value="accountHolder styleClass="form"/> > > ... > > <html:multibox property="marketing" value="user2" styleClass="form"/> > > ... > > <html:multibox property="marketing" value="user3" styleClass="form"/> > > ... > > <html:multibox property="marketing" value="user4" styleClass="form"/> > > ... > > <html:multibox property="marketing" value="user5" styleClass="form"/> > > > > ----- > > Action: > > > > String[] marketing = form.getMarketing(); > > log.debug("marketing " + marketing.length); > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
