From 44256dcf70be52d49ccdbbb99fc543b7536bc3e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Jeffrey <chjjeffrey@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 01:05:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add getItem and getItemIndex for List.

---
 README.md     |  2 +-
 lib/widget.js | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 429942d..f664071 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ A scrollable list which can display selectable items.
 - inherits all from Box.
 - **add/addItem(text)** - add an item based on a string.
 - **removeItem(child)** - removes an item from the list. child can be an
-  element or an index.
+  element, index, or string.
 - **clearItems()** - clears all items from the list.
 - **setItems(items)** - sets the list items to multiple strings.
 - **select(index)** - select an index of an item.
diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index a73d2fd..f85905b 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -4209,11 +4209,22 @@ List.prototype.appendItem = function(item) {
   }
 };
 
-List.prototype.removeItem = function(child) {
-  var i = typeof child !== 'number'
-    ? this.items.indexOf(child)
-    : child;
+List.prototype.getItemIndex = function(child) {
+  if (typeof child === 'number') {
+    return child;
+  } else if (typeof child === 'string') {
+    return this.ritems.indexOf(child);
+  } else {
+    return this.items.indexOf(child);
+  }
+};
 
+List.prototype.getItem = function(child) {
+  return this.items[this.getItemIndex(child)];
+};
+
+List.prototype.removeItem = function(child) {
+  var i = this.getItemIndex(child);
   if (~i && this.items[i]) {
     child = this.items.splice(i, 1)[0];
     this.ritems.splice(i, 1);