dropdown still driving me nuts...why doesnt this work

[cardeiro]

okay I am trying to do something when a particular item is selected from the dropdown (the following is not my real code, just an example of what is going wrong).

What the code syas to me is that if 'dog' is selected an alert box will say 'yay dog' and for everything else it should alert 'boo no dog' but it says boo even when dog is selected. what am I doing wrong.

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var fieldWin = new Window('dialog', 'Field Init');
fieldWin.fields = fieldWin.add('panel', undefined, 'fields');
	fieldWin.fields.groupx = fieldWin.fields.add('group', undefined);
		drop = fieldWin.fields.groupx.add('dropdownlist',  undefined, ['dog', 'cat', 'fish']);
		drop.onChange = function () {
			alert(this.selection);	
			if(this.selection == 'dog'){
				alert('yay dog');
			}else{
				alert('boo no dog');
			}
		}
fieldWin.show();

[Paul Tuersley]

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	if (this.selection.toString() == 'dog') {

You can also check this.selection.index

[cardeiro]

Genius! Thanks Paul...I'd given up and resorted to an ugly hack to accomplish my task. Now I can do it right, thanks Paul.

[lloydalvarez]

By the way, I believe this will also work:

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 if (this.selection.text == 'dog') {