[Typo3-dev] Select Boxes

[John Begley]

I have questions re Select boxes in TCEforms.  I am using a flexform for a
frontend plugin which I have defined as follows:

<TCEforms>
  <label>Select Documents</label>
	<config>
	  <type>select</type>
	  <!--<autoSizeMax>20</autoSizeMax>--> <!-- doesn't seem to work -->
	  <size>8</size>
	  <maxitems>5</maxitems> <!-- how do we set no limit ?? -->
	  <minitems>1</minitems>
	  <!--<multiple>true</multiple>--> 
	  <itemsProcFunc>user_populate_list</itemsProcFunc>
	</config>
</TCEforms>

1)  maxitems:  When I configure a value here I get 2 boxes ("items" and
"selected") - but when I save my selections or change to a different sheet,
the selections disappear.  Other types such as radio, and check, preserve
their settings.

2)  Are all the elements under <config> supposed to work as if I defined
them directly in the $TCA array?  For example <autoSizeMax> doesn't seem to
work as described.

3)  I am retrieving my selections with the pi_getFFvalue() method, where I
get a string with comma separated values.  Is this right?  I am responsible
for tokenising this myself?

I really appreciate all the help I have been receiving.
John