# Flash MX Combobox won't Select!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/60191>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 7, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/60191 "2004-08-07T15:49:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tompatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@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/60191/1 "2004-08-07T15:49:48Z")

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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:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-combobox-wont-select/60191/2 "2004-08-07T17:38:11Z")

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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…