[REVIEW REQUEST] Add text property to ComboBox

[Tom Eugelink]

Seems legit, I'll also add it to JFXtras' spinner. I'm curious how much more of skins we're going to expose in the future.

Tom



On 2012-03-14 07:19, Jonathan Giles wrote:
> Yes, the text value would be set on every keystroke - it would be bound to the text property on TextField, which works in precisely this manner.
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> Also, you're correct, the text property would only be useful in edit mode. In non-edit mode the property will never change.
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> -- Jonathan
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> On 14/03/2012 7:17 p.m., Tom Eugelink wrote:
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>> So this is a feature for edit mode only. When would the property be set? On every keystroke?
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>> Tom
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>> On 2012-03-14 01:53, Jonathan Giles wrote:
>>> Hi all (yet again),
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>>> A quick one this time: http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19589
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>>> I'm wanting to add a text property to ComboBox, to allow for people to easily set the text in the ComboBox without committing it to being a value. More importantly, this also allows for developers to extract the content of the ComboBox TextField without having to have end-users press the Enter key to commit the text into the value property.
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>>> Without this end users who want to support Enter-less committing of content have to reach into the ComboBox skin, which is not particularly pleasant.
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>>> Any thoughts?
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