ComboBox.labelFunction

Availability

Flash Player 6.0.79.

Edition

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

myComboBox.labelFunction

Description

Property; a function that computes the label of a dataProvider item. You must define the function. The default value is undefined.

Example

The following example creates a data provider and then defines a function to specify what to use as the label in the drop-down list:

myComboBox.dataProvider  = [
  {firstName:"Nigel", lastName:"Pegg", age:"really young"},
  {firstName:"Gary", lastName:"Grossman", age:"young"},
  {firstName:"Chris", lastName:"Walcott", age:"old"},
  {firstName:"Greg", lastName:"Yachuk", age:"really old"} ];

myComboBox.labelFunction = function(itemObj){
  return (itemObj.lastName + ", " + itemObj.firstName);
}

See also

List.labelField