How to set selected value after load on demand

[James Daresta]

I have a combo with load on demand and I refresh via javascript. What I want is the combo to populate items and then go and selected item that matches a value id. So for example:

  OlinCA.loadStates = function (country, selectedState) {
    var rcbContactState = $find("<%= rcbContactState.ClientID %>");
    rcbContactState.set_text("Loading...");
    rcbContactState.clearSelection();
    rcbContactState.requestItems((country + '~' + selectedState), false);
    rcbContactState.findItemByValue(selectedState).select();
}

As you see I am passing a value to populate the combo by a selected country and then select a matching state. Well every time I call that findItemByValue I get an error because that line fires before the list is populated. I need somehow to have the load request finish first. I tried to select a value via the server side code, but nothing gets selected. What is the way I can do the selection like I need to?

[Hristo Valyavicharski]

Hi James,

The RadComboBox makes requests and this may take little longer time. That's why you may handle OnClientItemsRequested event, which you be fired immediately after the combo loads the filtered items and then call findItemByValue(). Something similar to this:

function OnClientItemsRequested(sender, args) {
sender.findItemByValue(selectedState).select();
}

Regards,
Hristo Valyavicharski
Telerik