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barema

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Registered: 2010-06-10

Posts: 1

custom dropdown: how to handle select-events ?

Hi all,

I've managed to implement a custom dropdown menu item, but I don't know how to handle select-events.
(my intention is to use the dropdown to insert tags into the edited text (for mail-merge usage))
This is what I got so far: I manage to display the dropdown in the menu using the config-settings below

conf.registerDropdown({
   id: "my-test",
    options: { "alfa": "$resultA", "beta": "$resultB", "gamma": "$resultC" },
    tooltip: "select a custom field to insert into the text",
    action: function(v){alert(v);}
});

What I don't know is how to handle a select-event, which is triggered, since I get some output on each select event.  I have no idea what kind of object is returned and how to retrieve the underlying values in my option list.

All help is welcome !!

Regards,
Bart

gogo

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2005-02-11

Posts: 1,015

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Re: custom dropdown: how to handle select-events ?

Have you looked first to see if a plugin can do this task for you already?

These plugins do this sort of thing...
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IF neither of those is suitable, you should look at the plugin CSS or DynamicCSS which will show you how to handle a drop-down so you can write your own plugin to do exactly what you need.

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James Sleeman