Cant edit items in combo box

I cannot edit items in my combo box when i click on it. I just see whit box . Can anybody help me ?

Dear Skooty,
in such cases, as the previous poster had said, recreating the control/VI in question usually fixes the problem. If it persists, a repair of your LabVIEW installation might be necessary.
Please let us know of your results.
Regards,
Andrew Valko
National Instruments Hungary

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Objective:
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With much gratitude,
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Hope you have a terrific day, theShyButterfly

Hi Peter,
Thank you for your quick response :) Brave man! :)
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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import javax.swing.event.*;
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Hi!!!
Thanks by answer to me.....
Yes ...i already understand why is happening in it.....
I did modifications to my code to remove the listeners and after to add them....but no yet obtain my goal that the combo 2 is filling if the combo 1 is actioned, the combo3 is filling if the combo2 is actioned and the combo 4 have to be filled if the combo 3 is actioned.
I think that at least should it to work for combo1 and combo2, because i don't know how to specify to add or remove the listener from the class de Panel_Data would be .....because i think that with:
jcb3.removeItemListener(this);
jcb3.addItemListener(this);
jcb4.removeItemListener(this);
jcb4.addItemListener(this);
i am removing and adding the itemlistener from the main class w10_a (for combo3 and combo4)...... and not for the Panel_Data class.
ie,
jcb4.removeItemListener(
//here is my doubt i don't know how to specify
//to add or to remove the itemlistener from the
//Panel_Data class for combo3 and combo4
jcb4.addItemListener(
//here is my doubt i don't know how to specify
//to add or to remove the itemlistener from the
//Panel_Data class for combo3 and combo4
Well...i hope that you could help me please in give me some suggestions about it...
Thanks in advance...
Mary
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import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.lang.*;
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--Simon
True mastery of any skill takes a lifetime.

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Germany        4000
Now i have icon which selects country (hard coded in excel) upon clicking the mouse on it and inserts in A1 suppose the value hardcoded is "India". Now this A1 is used as a "selected item" for combo box. the source to combo box is the above country and profit which populates at run time.
Now when i execute the dashboard. The value is inserted in A1 after clicking the icon but it is not picked up by combo box as "item selected" and hence combo box does not filter any data.
Can any pls help.
Thank you. I will award full points for correct solution.

Hi Monammed,
The said functionality should work. Please check your logic one more time. Also, try using some spreadsheet components mapped to the cells in question and understand how the data is flowing during run-time. This will help you test things. Delete spreadsheets when you are done with identifying the issue.
Lets check the combo box mapping one more time : Map the source of the combo to the entire range; labels in the combo box ONLY to the country column in the source range(typically this may be the left most column in the range); selected item should be mapped to the cell that has the destination for the icon and the type for default selection may be dynamic. Well, if there is any hard-coding of values involved anywhere, do check the spellings and other trivial things.
Do let me know if this was helpful and if you need any more help.
Thanks,
Prasanna

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