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Drop List workaround

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Using LiveCycle Designer 9 (Acrobat 9 standard), Windows 7 platform: dynamic form, flowable subforms

Since Drop Lists do not support multiple selections, I have put in a listbox.  But  this list box is LONG and I do not like the way it displays choices  (not to mention I do not want to eat up the form space) so I created a button and a calculated textfield, and set the listbox presence =  “hidden” on the page initialization. 

The  “Select Items” button sets the listbox presence to “visible”, and any  choices the user selects is set as the rawValue for the calculated  textfield - when the listbox is exited an EXIT code hides it again.

Is there a more elegant way of doing this?  I  wish I could parse out the selection from the listbox into the  textfield separated by commas (instead of top-down as it comes in), but  it seems a gross code to do that…

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