Unity TextMeshPro Dropdown issue

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Hello Nina,

yes I looked at the Unity scripting API and cannot figure out the problem.
As you can see the value field is public:

namespace TMPro
{
[AddComponentMenu(“UI/Dropdown - TextMeshPro”, 35)]
[RequireComponent(typeof(RectTransform))]
public class TMP_Dropdown : Selectable, IPointerClickHandler, IEventSystemHandler, ISubmitHandler, ICancelHandler
{
protected TMP_Dropdown();

    public RectTransform template { get; set; }
    public TMP_Text captionText { get; set; }
    public bool IsExpanded { get; }
    public int value { get; set; }
    public DropdownEvent onValueChanged { get; set; }
    public Image captionImage { get; set; }
    public TMP_Text itemText { get; set; }
    public Image itemImage { get; set; }
    public List<OptionData> options { get; set; }

and the code doesn’t give me any error while I’m setting the value:

private void Start()
{
    dropdown.value = -1;
    i = dropdown.value;
}

The point is that actually I cannot set a value external to the lenght of the Options as described in my previous message.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Fabio