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Yes, this would be easier ;-)

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I have folllowing the exercises of Magritte (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte) but I can't set the default value of nationality field. Here my code:

descriptionNationality ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'nationality' label: 'Nationality' priority: 55) options: #( 'France' 'England' 'Switzerland' 'Span' ); default: 'Switzerland'; beSorted; yourself

Somthing strange is that I have 2 selected option blanck. I have try to do this with Title option and it work.:

descriptionTitle ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'title' label: 'Title' priority: 10) options: #( 'Mr.' 'Mrs.' 'Ms.' 'Miss.' ); default: 'Mrs'; yourself.

This works for me. I create a new class Tester with those two descriptions on the class side and tried in Seaside:

TesterTask>>go | t | t := Tester new. [ self call: (t asComponent addValidatedForm; yourself) ] repeat

1. For the 'title' nothing is selected, because the default value is not in the list of options.

2. For the 'nationality' Switzerland is selected.

How does your model code looks like? Is it already initialized with something other than nil? Maybe you should give a little more context (a file-out) so that your problem can be tackled ;-)

Cheers, Lukas