Overwriting the texts in a combo

[Aaron Digulla]

Hello,

I've managed to bind my items to a combo and I can see them. Unfortunately, the items of type X can't have a toString().

How do I install an X->String converter for the combo in such a way that the strings are displayed in the combo, the typeahead sees them but when I use combo.getSelectedItem(), I still get an item of type X? Note that I need null elements (or at least a way to tell the combo that the user can select "nothing").

I had a look at PetTypeBinder but that's not what I want because there, getSelectedItem() returns a String, not X.

I tried to register a custom Converter (sourceClasses: X, targetClasses: String) but it's not used.

Next stop was to use a custom bindComboBox() which overwrites ComboBoxBinder.RENDERER_KEY and ComboBoxBinder.EDITOR_KEY. Unfortunately, these don't allow null values in the list of items.

I was thinking that this is such a common problem, that there must be a totally simple solution but after two days, I'm stuck.

Thanks a lot.

[Aaron Digulla]

Does no one have an example how to create a combo with a list of objects which includes null and a custom renderer?