The comboBox component in Flex has a property called "editable". If that property is set to "true", user can click on the comboBox label to rename it.

Sounds like a good idea that's easy to implement, but to make it work, it's not that easy.

If that's all you do, your user will be pissed offfor few reasons:

1. He might have a problem getting out of the edit mode since the comboBox control still keeps the focus even if user clicks outside the comboBox or hit the "enter" button.

2. The change that he did won't be recorded. As soon as he open the dropdown, it disappears. 

Annoying…

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