Still no luck. This is the code now:

def afterInit(self):

statesdropdown = SPLDropdown(self, DataSource = ClientBizobj, DataField

= "stateprov")

locations = ({"state": "Select", "iid": 0},

{"state": "Ak", "iid": 1},

{"state": "Ga", "iid": 2},

{"state": "Tx", "iid": 3})

choices = []

keys = {}

for location in locations:

choices.append("%s" % (location['state']))

keys[location["iid"]] = len(choices) - 1

self.Choices = choices

self.Keys = keys

self.ValueMode = "key"

#####################################

SPLDropdown is the RegID I gave to the drop down list.

Now I get the error:

NameError: global name 'SPLDropdown' is not defined

N00bs R Us

Carey

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Carey Gagnon wrote:

>

> > So even a static (for lack of a better phrase) drop down needs to be

> > bound

> > to the bizobj in order to be wrtten to the database on save?

>

> Yes. A control is just a dumb UI object. However, you can enable

> data

> binding by setting two properties: DataSource and DataField. These

> determine the object and property, respectively, that the control is

> bound to. In the most typical case, 'DataSource' is the same as the

> bizobj's DataSource (the form will figure this out at run time), and

> 'DataField' is the column in the data that the control's Value should

> be bound to. Just by setting those two properties you transform a dumb

> UI control into a powerful data display/editing tool.

>

>

> -- Ed Leafe

>

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