Flex :: Make A Value-aware Combo Box?
Mar 31, 2011
Combo boxes in Flex are really awkward to use if you have objects in them addressed by properties, in my experience. In Flex 3.5 we had a working extension to the combo box that would populate a selectedValue property (and allow changing the selectedIndex by same).
Here's a quick example of what using one of these looks like:
<c:ValueComboBox valueField="country_code">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public function get selectedCountry(): String {
[code]...
However, this has stopped working in Flex 4. What's happening is that our existing component drove its changes by overriding the set selectedIndex() function, which is no longer called when the combo box's selected index changes (wtf?).Is there a working value-aware combobox implementation for Flex 4? [URL]
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