# Flash MX Combobox won't Select!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/118633
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 7, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/118633 "2004-08-07T15:49:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@tompatros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tompatros)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/118633/1 "2004-08-07T15:49:48Z")
Ugh!
I have a pair of radio buttons. When one is selected, it updates the items in a combobox. When I try to select an item in the combobox, it seems to select an item (getValue / getSelectedItem().data calls return values), but it will not place that item’s label as the selected item. I only get a dark grey box where the label should be.
Any Ideas? This seems so stupid…
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### Author:  [@tompatros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tompatros)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/118633/2 "2004-08-07T17:38:11Z")
Yahoo! I answered my own question!
This article from Scott Manning had a bit to do with it ([http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/000400.php](http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/000400.php)), as did an article here on Kirupa regarding having to set masks programmatically to get dynamic text to function properly (the URL escapes me right now).
Hope this helps someone else…