[AccessD]ComboBox Values

Susan Harkins harkins at iglou.com
Wed Jul 9 22:09:25 CDT 2003


I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but have you taken a look at
the Forms combo box? It may have more control than the Access version. Of
course, they you have to deal with using a foreign control, but depending on
your situation, that may not matter.

Susan H.


> Nothing I've been able to find anywhere.
>
> It looks like when they built the Access version of a combobox, they
> built in a non-standard behaviour for the listbox part of the control
> and didn't include any way to access the highlighted item.
>
> It seems the highlighting when scrolling during a mousemove over the
> list portion of the control is a completely internal process of this
> sub-class of the standard Windows combobox control.
>
>
>
>  On 9 Jul 2003 at 21:58, Susan Harkins wrote:
>
> > Have you tried any of the mouse events? I'm not sure there's an
appropriate
> > one, but...
> >
> > Susan H.
> >
> >
> > > Darren,
> > >
> > > Correct...it is in DropDown Mode...but I can't get the value when the
> > mouse
> > > changes the highlighted value...only when the arrow keys are used to
move
> > to
> > > the next value...I will let you know if I figure the mouse out...but
for
> > > now...I used the onchange event and the .SelText property...ex:
> > >
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