Combobox

Combobox

• Demonstration: Comboboxes
• Java API: Combobox
• JavaScript API: Combobox

Employment/Purpose

Components: combobox and comboitem.

A combobox is a special text box that embeds a drop-down list. With comboboxes, users are allowed to select from a drop-down list, in addition to entering the text manually.

Example

 <combobox>
     <comboitem label="Simple and Rich"/>
     <comboitem label="Cool!"/>
     <comboitem label="Ajax and RIA"/>
 </combobox>

Supported events

Name	Event Type
onChange	Event: InputEvent Denotes the content of an input component has been modified by the user.
onChanging	Event: InputEvent Denotes that user is changing the content of an input component. Notice that the component's content (at the server) won't be changed until onChange is received. Thus, you have to invoke the getValue method in the InputEvent class to retrieve the temporary value.
onSelect	Event: SelectEvent Represents an event cause by user's the list selection is changed at the client.
onSelection	Event: SelectionEvent Denotes that user is selecting a portion of the text of an input component. You can retrieve the start and end position of the selected text by use of the getStart and getEnd methods.
onOpen	Event: OpenEvent Denotes user has opened or closed a component. Note: unlike onClose, this event is only a notification. The client sends this event after opening or closing the component. It is useful to implement load-on-demand by listening to the onOpen event, and creating components when the first time the component is opened.
onFocus	Event: Event Denotes when a component gets the focus.
onBlur	Event: Event Denotes when a component loses the focus.
onCreate	Event: CreateEvent It's used to make the combobox do some action after it has been created. For example you can make it 'ReadOnly' ( onCreate="self.setReadonly(true);" ), 'Disabled' ( onCreate="self.setDisabled(true);" ) or even 'Select' a value from the combobox ( onCreate="self.setSelectedIndex(0);" ) .

Supported Children

Comboitem

Use cases

Version	Description	Example Location
5.0

Version History

Version	Date	Content
5.0.1	4/27/2010	Initialization