Enable CTRL / SHIFT multiselect behaviour for combobox

[stevemParticipant]

Hello,

is there a way to enable the CTRL/SHIFT multi-select behaviour for the combobox’s internal popup listbox as you can do for the jqxlistbox via “multipleextended”?
If there is no official or unofficial API call that can enable that how would one go about injecting that behaviour in the internal jqxListBox that the jqxComboBox is using ?
Would overriding/adding event handlers to the internal listbox work ? Any examples would be great.

I would obviously like to avoid to customize the widget itself to make upgrading easier.
PS: I’m using multiSelect=true for the combobox.

Regards,
Steve

[NadezhdaParticipant]

Hello Steve,

Unfortunately, CTRL/SHIFT multi-select behaviour is not available in jqxComboBox. If you want to select multiple items you can use ‘multiSelect’ property or check multiple items with ‘checkboxes’ property (if you have checkboxes in jqxComboBox).

Best Regards,
Nadezhda

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[stevemParticipant]

Thanks Nadezhda for the quick reply.

We decided to not further pursue this as we feel your design decision of not allowing a multi-select in the popup listbox should be generally acceptable in most use cases as the combobox is all about finding things quickly in a big selection list (for us at least), so scrolling through the list and CTRL selecting should not be a very common use case.

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