Combo box internationalization

I'm trying to brainstorm ways that I can design my application so that I have the benefits of a drop down / combo box list and free form text entry while at the same time being as globalization ready as possible.
I like the feature in some combo boxs where the end user may select a choice from a list but may also type in entry values that doesn't exist in the predefined list. On the other hand, I would like the predefined list to be properly localized for different target audiences - for example, if the combo contains a list of cities, I'd want the same entry to refer to the city Venice in English as Venice but as Venezia in Italian and Venise in French.
One way of approaching this problem is two have two fields: a combo box that prohibits users from free form entry (but has a list of most choices) and a second text field that a user types in if they can't find the desired value in the combo box. The combo box entries would be stored in an locale-independent or consistent way in the data store while the display would change depending on the user's selected locale. (Unfortunately, the contents of the text box would not be in any way localized).
Can anyone think of other ways to accomodate the goal of having a list of some sort (not necessarily a combo box) that allows user entry while at the same time most entries are stored in a locale independent way (so that they can be easily localized)?

That's true - I didn't specify what type of combo box it is. That was intentional, as I'm open to anything that will get the job done. I have to admit to not knowing a lot about the JComboBox control but I've read the Java Swing Component Tutorial on Combo Boxes (and specifically the JComboBox) and I can see what you're talking about. It's a good suggestion that you've made.
Part of what I need to do (and not stated in my original goal) is to be able to save the combo box's (or whatever control -- I'll call it combo box for simplicity ) value to a database (solution must work in both Oracle and SQL Server) field and then later retrieve these values to display them in a form and in a list. Issues that I'll need to deal with are sorting based on the combo field value, comparing records for equality (and specifically their combo box field values), and searching for a record based on a value in a combo box field.
A bit more information on my requirements may help people with their suggestions - as noted, localization is a priority, data must be saved to an Oracle or SQL Server database and I need to deal with sorting, comparison, and searching based on the combo field. I will be working with a three tier architecture and a rich client tier, but would like to do as much as possible in terms of sorting, comparison, and searching at the database level for performance reasons. I'll likely need to do some work in the middle tier - what kind of support does Java give for comparing, sorting, and searching a bulk set of records, w.r.t respect to the combo box problem as I've described it so far?

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g.drawRect(x, y, shapeSize, shapeSize);
// set showStatus value
public void setShowStatus (boolean s) {
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public boolean getShowStatus () {
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public void setForeground(Color newColor) {
          foreground = newColor;
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Hello,
does setSelectedIndex(int anIndex)
do what you need?
See Java Doc for JComboBox.

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I had two comboboxes on a form, one having a bind variable. It works great, with the first one as bind field.
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Hi,
This was a bug and is fixed in 30984.
Thanks,
Sharmila

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I would like to know the difference between the elements 'Combo box' and 'Dropdown List' in VC. I am facing an issue where i am invoking an entry list and the output of the first element the entry list returns is getting reflected as the output for all the elements...
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Hi,
I have a screen that has a combo box and an ALV.
the combo box has the line numbers of the data in the ALV.
you can select the line item and then the ALV changes...
I fill the combo with function VRM_SET_VALUE.
all is good once the user changes the combo box.
I want to enable the user to click (hotspot) on ALV and then to ... and to change the value of the combo box to the line number he clicked on.
I couldn't change the value inside that box.
The combo box is declared as global parameter.
when I assign a value to it inside the method, it is good. but once back to PAI, it is the old value.
Do you have any idea how to set up that value?
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Itay,
When you load the combo box, you should be setting a "key" for each entry in the combo box.
See below:
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move '2010Q1' to Value-Key.
move '2010 - Q1' to Value-Text.
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move '2010Q2' to Value-Key.
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append value to list.
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move '2010 - Q4' to Value-Text.
append value to list.
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    exporting
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So add these "keys" to a hidden column in the ALV grid. Then .... when the user presses a hotspot, pass the value of the hidden column (for the selected row) into the COMBO1 box.
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I have a screen where there are quite a few items which are of the multiple-choice type. In other platforms i use a combo box (pick lists) to do this.
On the iPhone SDK the only thing that comes close is the UIPicketView which is ugly IMHO. it takes too much real estate and too heavy.
Is this is the only control available now?
Also does the UIPicker come with an associated control which will launch the picker? What i mean is on other platforms and on the web there is a text field with a button with a down arrow next to it. Clicking either on the text field or the down arrow drops the list down. Is there a similar control on the iPhone which when clicked launches the picker OR do i have to create a button or a custom view which will launch the picker?
Thanks for reading this and for your feedback.
-TRS

I do not believe there is an equivalent of -D in the DB JVM, a possible solution is:
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Chris

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Hi I'm using Jdeveloper 11.1.2.3.0
Using Hr Schema employees table
I Display employees data in af:table
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fires the entire filed validations for mandatory atributes
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