how to set default item in combobox

[shalu]

Hi,

I am beginner in live code, I am looking for the code of set the default item in combobox , eg: select, item1, item2, item3, if I select item 2 or 3 after performing it's task the it's automatically set to "select" option, is it possible

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Thanks,
Shalu S

[Klaus]

Namaste Shalu,

not sure I understand, but maybe you just want to:
...
set the LABEL of btn "your combobox here" to "What the user will read in the button"
...
?

The label is just a string, so you can set it to whatever you want to.


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I like to use the "menuHistory" property, since it gives me the line number of the option menu. So if you have:

item 1
item 2
item 3
item 4

in the menu, and you:

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set the menuHistory of btn "yourOption" to 3

the third line will appear. This will, as Klaus points out, also set the label property to "item 3".

Craig Newman

[Klaus]

Hi friends,

remember that setting the menuhistory will also "fire" a MENUPICK with that menuitem!
Maybe this is unwanted here


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

True.

Setting the label of an option button does not change the menuHistory, nor fire the "menuPick" message.

One may set the menuHistory (in the earlier example) to, say, 1, which will show "item 1", and the label will also be "item 1". But if you then set the label to "item 3", the menuHistory does not change; it stays at 1. Perhaps this is a feature, that you can have the label follow the menuHistory, but not the other way around. Perhaps it is anomalous behavior.

Craig