Spinner with text and value

[joneden]

Coming from .net I'm used to having a drop down expose the index, value and text elements for a selected item.

Now that I'm looking at a spinner control I see that you can only really get two of these - the index and text. I need the value for database lookups.

What is the best strategy for handling this situation? The one I'm thinking of is to declare a map, squirt the data into that map (thus I have, index, value and text) then when the user makes a selection, I use the selected index of the spinner as the index in the page and hey presto I can get the value.

Am I right in saying that this is the best approach? Is it my imagination or is the spinner a somewhat lacking control?

Regards,

Jon

 

[Erel]

While a map can work, a List is even better in this case. Use the index to fetch the correct value (the only problem with map is if you have two items with the same text).

 

[joneden]

Thanks Erel, I've changed it accordingly.