List box multiselect resulting in pulsating cursor

Question

I followed the coding suggestion found in the following Topic link to create a multiselect Listbox that saves all its selections to the submitted XML output file.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbda6ea/9
In the Listbox initialize event, I use this code:
this.ui.choiceList.open = "multiSelect";
this.rawValue = "-1";
In the invisible Textbox preSubmit event, I use this code:
this.rawValue = Listbox1.rawValue;
However, in Designer's PDF Preview, as well while testing in Acrobat 7, the moment I have selected two or more items in the Listbox with the Ctrl key AND THEN click into any other field in the form, the cursor rapidly pulsates between either the text cursor and the hourglass, or the hand cursor and the hourglass.
I can continue to fill out the form just fine and submit by email, and all the selected data is preserved in the XML output -- however, the pulsing cursor will totally unnerve the users.
Does anyone have any idea why it does this? This behavior doesn't happen in the example that I borrowed it from.

Answer 1

[email protected] wrote:
> Note that this will only work if the text and value assigned to an item in the list box are the same as well as only work in the single-selection case.
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> xfa.event.newText will only be set to the item text of the item which was clicked by the mouse. If an item's value differs from its text (e.g. you have an item named "Vegetables" with a value of "1"), xfa.event.newText will be set to "Vegetables", not "1". Although you can determine that the value of the new selected item is "1" by using this.boundItem(xfa.event.newText), you can't determine the value of all items that were selected.
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> In a multi-select list box, simply using xfa.event.newText won't work in all cases because even when the user shift-clicks an item to select all items from the last selected item to the item clicked, xfa.event.newText will still only be set to the item that was clicked as opposed to being, for example, a newLine-delimited string of all items that were selected as a result of the shift-click.
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> Although we shouldn't have to be calling this.saveXML() prior to retrieving this.rawValue, it's the only way we've found to successfully retrieve the value of all items that were selected at the time of the Change event.
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> Stefan
> Adobe Systems
Sorry, I misunderstood the problem. I think the real issue here is that
multiselect list boxes are not fully supported. Be careful when using
these. If you try to export xml data from the form, you will get mixed
results. Sometimes it exports all of the values, sometimes it exports
one of the values, and sometimes it exports some of the values...none of
which seem to match what was actually selected. At least this is what I
experienced in limited testing. Proceed with caution!!!
Justin Klei
Cardinal Solutions Group
www.cardinalsolutions.com