<![CDATA[Combo boxes have different values after selecting a value and when displaying choices]]>Hi all, I'm using the QMl combo box.
Different values after value selection and when displaying choices.

Why are they different?
How can we get the same value?

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    ListModel {
        id: listModel
        ListElement {
            name: "A & B"
        }
        ListElement {
            name: "&&&"
        }
    }

    ComboBox {
        id: comboBox
        textRole: "name"
        model: listModel
    }
]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/150520/combo-boxes-have-different-values-after-selecting-a-value-and-when-displaying-choicesRSS for NodeThu, 09 Apr 2026 08:49:08 GMTThu, 05 Oct 2023 08:56:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Combo boxes have different values after selecting a value and when displaying choices on Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:22:22 GMT]]>@JonB
Thanks to you, I understood that & is a shortcut character.

Hey guys, I want to display the same value in both cases.
Please help me.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/775014https://forum.qt.io/post/775014Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:22:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Combo boxes have different values after selecting a value and when displaying choices on Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:02:48 GMT]]>@Ren-K
They are different because & is used before a character to indicate it is a shortcut. That is why you get the underline character in A & B -> A _B.

I don't know QML, but in the first case you are in something which does not do shortcuts so it shows A & B literally. In the second case it does accept shortcut key input and so displays with that information.

Simplest would be if you can avoid & characters in the texts altogether. Otherwise you will apparently have to do something to translate & to && for the second case, which will be displayed as literal single &. How you do this from QML (do you need to go via script?) I do not know.

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