TwinColSelect Pre-Populate RHS

Hi,

I'm wondering, is it possible to pre-populate the RHS of the TwinColSelect with some values....or....perhaps I could "mimic" the select event before displaying the component so that the RHS has some values?

Basically I'm assigning some "roles" to a user, but naturally if that user already has those roles, then it doesn't make sense for these roles to be displayed on the LHS, then should be on the RHS.

-=bootlaces=-

What you are looking for is

setValue()

which takes as input a collection of the selected item ids.

Note that the parameter for the setValue() must be a Set for multiselect components. Like this:

final TwinColSelect select = new TwinColSelect("Select Targets to Destroy");

// Put some data in the select
String planets[] = {"Mercury", "Venus", "Earth", "Mars",
        "Jupiter", "Saturn", "Uranus", "Neptune"};
for (int pl=0; pl<planets.length; pl++)
    select.addItem(planets[pl]);

// Preselect a few items
HashSet<String> preselected = new HashSet<String>();
preselected.add("Venus");
preselected.add("Earth");
preselected.add("Mars");
select.setValue(preselected);

Marko Grönroos: Note that the parameter for the setValue() must be a Set for multiselect components. Like this:

Internal setValue method taken from AbstractSelect:

protected void setValue(Object newValue, boolean repaintIsNotNeeded)
            throws Property.ReadOnlyException, Property.ConversionException {

        if (isMultiSelect()) {
            if (newValue == null) {
                super.setValue(new HashSet(), repaintIsNotNeeded);
            } else if (Collection.class.isAssignableFrom(newValue.getClass())) {
                super.setValue(new HashSet((Collection) newValue),
                        repaintIsNotNeeded);
            }
        } else if (newValue == null || items.containsId(newValue)) {
            super.setValue(newValue, repaintIsNotNeeded);
        }
    }

This would indicate that the actual value given as the parameter to setValue doesn't have to be a Set, any collection should suffice, the collection will be converted to a Set. The getValue will return a Set of selected item ids.

I too thought at a Collection would suffice, but when I tried with Vector, I couldn't get it working. A bit odd, maybe I did something wrong.