Adobe LiveCycle populate drowndown from text field value

Question

Does anyone know how to populate a dropdown list from a text field with comma-separated data? (using javascript or itext java) iText claims that their apt can not do this. I have seen people talk about using javascript but they do not tell you how to do it.

I know this can be done via a web service and an outside XML file but the customer does not wish to allow for those options

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Put this code in dropdown list initialize event. Remember to replace TextField1 with a proper name.

var arr = TextField1.rawValue.split(",");
for (var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
    this.addItem(arr[i]);
}