[Interest] ComboBox with hintText?

[Jason H]

I'm also on 5.6.2 because we had bugfixes arrive in that that we need that aren't in 5.7.0, but they will be in 5.7.1


> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 at 11:56 AM
> From: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> To: "J-P Nurmi" <jpnurmi at qt.io>
> Cc: "interestqt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] ComboBox with hintText?
>
> Unfortunately, 1.4.
> 
> The QtQuickControls 2.0 were very buggy on mobile, and I've not had time to retest all the issues we had with 2.0.
> 
> > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 at 11:34 AM
> > From: "J-P Nurmi" <jpnurmi at qt.io>
> > To: "interestqt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] ComboBox with hintText?
> >
> > On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 16:23 +0100, Jason H wrote:
> > > I'm trying to have a QML ComboBox with a hint text capability, but
> > > none of my efforts are panning out. The idea is that the combobox has
> > > an unpicked initial state, and supplied a hint as to what the
> > > combobox contains. Once a selection is made the combobox functions
> > > normally.
> > > 
> > > I'm having trouble creating my own. I'm attempting to sue a Text +
> > > Combobox, but the model of the combobox does not update when the
> > > model is obtained from the server, and there seems to be no way to
> > > programatically open a ComboBox in QML.
> > > 
> > > So I'm here to ask, has this been solved before?
> > > 
> > 
> > You didn't specify any version, so I'm assuming you're using the latest
> > and greatest Qt Quick Controls 2.
> > 
> > You can specify ComboBox::displayText to show any text you want on the
> > button, and the popup you can access via ComboBox::popup, and call
> > open() on it.
> > 
> > - http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls2-combobox.html#displayText
> > -prop
> > - http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls2-combobox.html#popup-prop
> > 
> > -- 
> > J-P Nurmi
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