How to update GUI dropdown list label

[Krikroff 199]

It seems to me the classic way not as expected, What is your experience of this?

 

ex. self:updateView("select_ID_FV", "text", "Select a radio")

 

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[jgab 2,641]

1 hour ago, Krikroff said:

It seems to me the classic way not as expected, What is your experience of this?

 

ex. self:updateView("select_ID_FV", "text", "Select a radio")

 

thx

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changes the selection. 

to update the text you need to set a new options

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See also the cache bug that affects the option when the user selects it..

 

Edited January 24, 2024 by jgab

[Krikroff 199]

Ok with that but to change the default “Choose” value ?

[jgab 2,641]

9 minutes ago, Krikroff said:

Ok with that but to change the default “Choose” value ?

Ah, you don't 

[jgab 2,641]

So it's nowhere in the property.viewLayout so it must be kept somewhere else...

Normally the title for a html input select is a disabled first item for the select, so it could have been logical that it was the first item in the options set and that one could disable items...

Is "Choose" localised? 

[lazer 41]

@Krikroff did you saw this message :

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It appears that the selected item can only be changed if the options have been loaded statically in device's properties, and not dynamically in device's webview using updateView()

[jgab 2,641]

9 hours ago, lazer said:

@Krikroff did you saw this message :

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It appears that the selected item can only be changed if the options have been loaded statically in device's properties, and not dynamically in device's webview using updateView()

This test updates selected item fine also with dynamically created options... for me.

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It works in the Dashboard Web View (with the QA editor view closed), it works on Safari and Chrome on MacOS, and it works in the Yubii app on iOS.

It doesn't work in the QA editor view with the UI builder - if we update options or select an item there, it is not reflected in the UI builder view - but if we have a another tab open with the dashboard view, it is reflected there correctly... so it seems like the UI builder is buggy when it comes to show current values

 

Coming back to the menu text label "Choose", it's possible to define when statically defining the UI item, and it shows correctly in the UI builder view, but always shows as "Choose" in the Dashboard view... for me.

Edited January 25, 2024 by jgab

[Krikroff 199]

Hi @jgab totally agree with you.

[Neo Andersson 230]

@jgab Jan, i have populated my dropdown dynamically, and it is fine, but every time a exit the view, like clicking away to other tab of the QA, it loooses the selected item focus. Always returns back to the default "Choose" option selected.

Is there anything we can do about this?

[jgab 2,641]

1 hour ago, Neo Andersson said:

@jgab Jan, i have populated my dropdown dynamically, and it is fine, but every time a exit the view, like clicking away to other tab of the QA, it loooses the selected item focus. Always returns back to the default "Choose" option selected.

Is there anything we can do about this?

There is no event when a QA looses or gain focus so we don't know when to update the selection.

The only (ugly) way to do it I guess is to loop every say 2s and set the selection.

[Neo Andersson 230]

11 minutes ago, jgab said:

There is no event when a QA looses or gain focus so we don't know when to update the selection.

The only (ugly) way to do it I guess is to loop every say 2s and set the selection.

The question is, why on earth the dropdown just looses the selected value..it has no sense, anyway thank you

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16 minutes ago, Neo Andersson said:

The question is, why on earth the dropdown just looses the selected value..it has no sense, anyway thank you

Ah, there is a fix. It seems to be related to the

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and that I reported about...

In the function that is called when you do a selection, do

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[Neo Andersson 230]

8 minutes ago, jgab said:

Ah, there is a fix. It seems to be related to the

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and that I reported about...

In the function that is called when you do a selection, do

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Unfortunatelly doesn't work. It jumps back to Choose.,.

[jgab 2,641]

2 minutes ago, Neo Andersson said:

Unfortunatelly doesn't work. It jumps back to Choose.,.

For me it works in the Web view on MacOS/Safari. Haven't tested the app.

[Christb 33]

On 3/7/2024 at 1:43 PM, jgab said:

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I have tested it on both Yubii application and Firefox or Chrome (Safari is no more available for Windows) and strangely, you need to select twice the same item in the list to have the item name displayed instead of "Choose"

Even if you select an item in the onInit process it does not work.

I tried to have 2 updateView in the code and it does not also.

Edited March 8, 2024 by Christb

[fel-x 7]

Hi everyone, 

I'm struggling with this issue as well.

I can confirm that the only way to have the selectedItem instead of "choose", is to select the same option twice. The fist time you select it the option menu goes back to "choose" and the second time, it remains on the selectedItem.  And self:updateView() cannot help, even when it's called several times.

This is abnormal and very annoying.

Has anyone found a workaround or a fix ?

 

[fel-x 7]

I actually found a workaround by trying all kind of combinations !

Using tostring() on event.values[1] in self:updateView() did the trick !

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Does it also work in your case ?

 

[Neo Andersson 230]

It was always known, that you have to use string for the value you want to apply. Look at the Jgab's, or Krikroff's examples..All have quotes..