expand ListBox as droplist using keyboard

[Jonathan Alon]

Hi,

I have a FlexTable full of ListBoxs set to 1 visible item, when
clicked on with the mouse the listbox will expand and let me see the
full list of items, I want to create a keyboard shortcut to mimic the
same effect.
I've tried adding keypresshandler to handle specific key and through
it fire a mouse down NativeEvent, but it does nothing.
Anyone have a clue? ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Alexandre Ardhuin]

ListBox use html SELECT element.
Thus, you have natively (without keypresshandler) keys up/down to change selection and :
 - in Firefox and IE : ALT+DOWN/ALT+UP to expand/collapse select.
 - in chrome : Space/esc to expand/collapse select.

I don't know if you can expand select with javascript.

Alexandre.

2011/3/21 Jonathan Alon <jonn...@gmail.com>

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[Jonathan Alon]

I didn't know about the alt+down/alt+up / space shortcuts

I wish I have seen your reply earlier, I ended up changing the size of
the select element when pressing space, and changing it back to one on
blur

Thanks

On Mar 24, 12:10 am, Alexandre Ardhuin <alexandre.ardh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ListBox use html SELECT element.
> Thus, you have natively (without keypresshandler) keys up/down to change
> selection and :
>  - in Firefox and IE : ALT+DOWN/ALT+UP to expand/collapse select.
>  - in chrome : Space/esc to expand/collapse select.
>
> I don't know if you can expand select with javascript.
>
> Alexandre.
>

> 2011/3/21 Jonathan Alon <jonno...@gmail.com>