Question

Here is my code:

<mx:ComboBox  prompt="" editable="true" dataProvider="{tableSelector.list}"/>

When this code executes, flex just sets the selectedIndex to 0 and displays the first item in the dataProvider instead of leaving the text and prompt as the empty string “”. How do I get around this? I need the text property to be “” unless the user selects another item in the combobox.

Answer 1

I was able to fix this without modifying the dataProvider with this code:

combobox1.dataProvider = tableSelector.list;
combobox1.selectedIndex = -1;