Sencha Touch Cookbook

Working with the select field

This recipe describes the use of the select form field, which allows the user to select a value from a list of choices, such as a combo box.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have set up your development environment by following the recipes outlined in Chapter 1.

Make sure that you have followed the Getting your form ready with FormPanel recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

1. Copy ch02_01.js to ch02_05.js.
2. Open a new file named ch02_05.js and replace the definition of formBase with the following code:

    var formBase = { items: [{ xtype: 'selectfield', name: 'select', label: 'Select', placeHolder: 'Select...', options: [ {text: 'First Option', value: 'first'}, {text: 'Second Option', value: 'second'}, ...