How to read the selected ComboBox "Text" and "value"

[writetoashishp]

Hello Friends

After much searching, found the link to populate (with script) the combox for my project.

Problem:
However, after populating, i want to fetch the selected combox box "text" and "value" in two variables - Please let me know the sample code to do so?

Expecting a very quick reply.

Note: I am unable to use the custom action, Kindly provide the example or a sample project/script (code/attachement):
Session.DoAction("ExtractComboBoxData")


Thanking in Advance.

[Daniel]

Hello and welcome to Advanced Installer forums,

Thank you for your interest in Advanced Installer.

In order to achieve what you want you can use our "ExtractComboBoxData" predefined custom action to extract all combo box items (extracted in "AI_COMBOBOX_DATA" property). Then, you can create your own custom action wich will parse the "AI_COMBOBOX_DATA" property content and will extract selected item text and value. Also, please keep in mind that a combo box property is always set with its selected item value.

Here are the steps to proceed:
- Go to "Dialogs" page and add your combo box control (e.g. COMBO_PROP).
- Go to "Custom Actions" page and add our "Extract combo box data" custom action without sequence.
- Add a "Launch attached file" custom action without sequence (e.g. ExtractSelectedItem) using a VBS file like this:

Code: Select all

Dim comboBox
Dim selectedItemValue, selectedItemText
  
comboBox = Session.Property("AI_COMBOBOX_DATA")
selectedItemValue = Session.Property("COMBO_PROP")

itemsArray = Split(comboBox, "|", -1)

For Each item In itemsArray
	tempItem=Split(item,"#")
    If (tempItem(0) = selectedItemValue) Then
      selectedItemText = tempItem(1)   
    End if
Next

Session.Property("COMBO_VALUE") = selectedItemValue
Session.Property("COMBO_TEXT") = selectedItemText

which will save the selected item value and text in two installer properties (COMBO_VALUE and COMBO_TEXT).

- Go to "Dialogs" page and on [Next>] button (of your combo box dialog) add the following published events:

• Event: [AI_COMBOBOX_DATA]
  Argument: COMBO_PROP
  
  Event: Execute custom action
  Argument: ExtractComboBoxData
  
  Event: Execute custom action
  Argument: ExtractSelectedItem

- Build and run your project.

Also, here's attached a sample, created with version 10.0 of Advanced Installer, which implements a similar scenario.

sample.zip

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If you have any questions let us know.

All the best,
Daniel

[cpatterson]

Hi, Daniel, I have Enterprise Edition 9.4, and I can't open this aip file. Is it possible for you to build this same aip file in an older AI version and upload it here? Thanks!

[johnson5]

I do not know about how to Read the Selected Combo Box "Text" as well as "Value".

[Daniel]

Hello,

I've attached a sample created with AI 9.4 version.

sample.zip

(3.56 KiB) Downloaded 662 times

If you have any questions let us know.

All the best,
Daniel

[cpatterson]

Thank you!

[Daniel]

You're welcome.

All the best,
Daniel

[Abhinay]

Hi,

I Need a vb script so that i want to write the text entered in combo box by user during installation to the json file or a text file.

For example:
Dim comboBox
Dim selectedItemValue, selectedItemText

comboBox = Session.Property("AI_COMBOBOX_DATA")
selectedItemValue = Session.Property("COMBO_PROP")

itemsArray = Split(comboBox, "|", -1)

For Each item In itemsArray
tempItem=Split(item,"#")
If (tempItem(0) = selectedItemValue) Then
selectedItemText = tempItem(1)
End if
Next

Session.Property("COMBO_VALUE") = selectedItemValue
Session.Property("COMBO_TEXT") = selectedItemText

Set FSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = FSO.CreateTextFile(outfile,True)
for i=1 to 2
outFile="C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\"
outFile.WriteLine "COMBO_VALUE"
outFile.WriteLine "COMBO_TEXT"

[Catalin]

Hello Abhinay,

I have answered your main thread here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=36843&p=102964&sid= ... a2#p102964

All the best,
Catalin