Combo box Default Selected Item/Value?

[Alex]

Is there a way to set a ComboBox's default selected item?


In my round about away of trying to achieve this, I tried to use the Clear Selection Button, and overrode the Setter in my bound property (if value == null, use set value to default value). So in my model, it works fine, however, in the UI layer it doesn't, as the selected item is null (even thou the bound value is correct)
i.e. The control doesn't update correctly


e.g. If I have it bound to a collection of strings

{ bill, john, maxine }
And John is currently selected, but Maxine is the default.
In my properties setter I would so something like this

newValue = value;
if (newValue == null) newValue = default; (where default is Maxine)
...
RaisePropertyChanged...etc.

Now if I call from codebehind, property = null
It will correctly set the property to the default value, and the Combo box will properly select Maxine
However, if I click the clear selection button, it will set the value to null, which thus causes the value to be set to Maxine, BUT, the control still has it's currently selected item to null


i.e. I suspect your control does this when you clear selection
*set binded property to null
*privately set selected item to null - and do not persist changes to binding
Is it possible that you could rectify this in a future version?
(e.g. privately set selected item to null, then set binded property to null)

[Valeri Hristov]

Hi Alexander,

I created a simple application that resembles my understanding of your scenario. It seems to work as expected, could you please, let me know if I am doing something wrong?

Best wishes,
Valeri Hristov
the Telerik team

[Alex]

Hi Valeri,

Yes that is what I was trying to do, I'm not to sure why mine was not working before... thou I've re-written it and it seems to work fine.

[HaukiDog]

I just tried this sample code in SL4 with the latest Telerik libraries and it doesn't work. It allows me to click 'clear' only if I have not selected any previous value. Once I make a selection in the list clear seems to have no effect.

Any idea?

-Dave

[George]

Hello Dave,

I tried to reproduce the problem, but to no avail. In the previous example is shown how to set a default value of the RadComboBox when the Clear button is clicked. Please, let me know if I missed something. Could you please give some more details about the issue? 

I will be glad to assist you further.

Greetings,
George
the Telerik team