How to make initial selection in Combobox with dataProvider

Question

My ComboBox uses dataProvider. I want the combobox is
initially shown with an selected item displayed, which is normally
not the first item. How to set the initial selection? Thx

Answer 1

Unless you combo box dataProvider items are primitive values,
like string or number, you cannot set currentItem.
Instead, you must loop over the dataProvider and compare the
value in the appropriate property to the value you want to match.
When you find a match, use the loop index to set the
ComboBox.selectedIndex.
Doing this one-off is simple. If you need it often, consider
extending ComboBox. The difficulty with this is that the
dataProvider can be anything and it is difficult to generically
handle all the possibilities. I suspect that this is why ComboBox
does not handle it natively.
I have an example here.
http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&objectID=767
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