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Re: [WIN] how make empty combo not "open" (dropdown) if clicked on?

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Oct 21, 2001
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Must be in the onEvent system of Win32lib, Im not sure.
it just looked like it would work..

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net


> Euman,
> 
> Using sendMessage to get the combo count didn't work any better than my
> original use of getCount, but that's pretty reasonable, right?  getCount
> probably *uses* sendMessage(Combo3,CB_GETCOUNT, 0,0) .  The problem seems to
> be that even if it's told by "dummy = sendMessage(Combo3,CB_SHOWDROPDOWN
> ,False,0)"
> to close the list down, somehow the "windows" action of opening the combo on
> click predominates, *unless* you make windows ignore its normal action by
> Derek's suggestion of returnValue(0) if count = 0.
> 
> Thanks for trying, though :)
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 11:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [WIN] how make empty combo not "open" (dropdown) if clicked on?
> 
> 
> > Correction actually addition to the code I sent...
> >
> > procedure Combo3_onEvent (atom event, atom wParam, atom lParam)
> >   if event = CBN_DROPDOWN then
> >     if sendMessage(Combo3,CB_GETCOUNT, 0,0) > 0 then
> >        dummy = sendMessage(Combo3,CB_SHOWDROPDOWN , True,0)
> >    else
> >        dummy = sendMessage(Combo3,CB_SHOWDROPDOWN ,False,0)
> >     end if
> >   end if
> > end procedure
> > onEvent[Combo3] = routine_id("Combo3_onEvent")
> >
> > Euman
> > euman at bellsouth.net
>