Hi all,

Let's take the following code as an example for my problem:

<rich:modalPanel id="waitingMessagePopup"...>
 ...
</rich:modalPanel>

<h:selectOneMenu value="#{fake.choice}">
 <f:selectItems value="#{fake.choices}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
<h:commandButton action="#{fake.doIt}" value="Go!" onclick="Richfaces.showModalPanel('waitingMessagePopup');"/>

I want to see my modal panel when I click on the button. The problem is that when I click on that button, the modal panel is dispalayed, and when the page is rerendered (the whole page as I don't use Ajax here), the combobox has an empty value.
Indeed, the bean receives, from the request, a null value for the bean property choice.

I suspect that the Javascript that shows the modal panel change the value of the combobox to an empty value. That's why I get a null for the property choice on my bean.
Am I right?

If I use a <a4j:commandButton .../> instead of the <h:commandButton .../>, then the behavior is correct (i.e. I get the correct value for choice on my bean).

However, for some reason, I don't want to use an A4J CommandButton here, just a "basic" one.

So, is there a way to solve my problem?

Thanks.