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If the text of the combo is like the text displayed in the textbox-portion of the combo ComboBox1.Listindex=-1 will be FALSE !!
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Three easy questions concerning ComboBoxes
Hi everyone!
I have 3 questions for you concerning comboboxes:
1.) How could I FIX the combobox in such a way that one could only choose an element in the list without writing any text and stuff - that is, only pick an entry with no choice of input text or modifying?
2.) When adding a new text as an element of the combobox, how could I check if it's already there and in this case just not add it? It would be silly having 2 similar entries to choose from, wouldn't it?
3.) How can I receive the number of elements within the combobox? I need this in order to output a msgbox, saying that the combobox is empty and in this way disabling it.
Thanks for your immediate answers!
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Hi Luchko
The answers to your questions are as follows
answers for question
1. you can do this by setting the style property of of the particular combobox to read only
2. check the elements by using for loop that is for i = 0 to combo1.listcount if combo1.text = newinsertigtext then dont add it.
3. by using comboboxname.listcount will return u the number of elements in that combobox
for question number
Dear luchko,
I also have the answers for all of your 3 questions
1. Set the property style = 2 at the design time.
2. I recommend you to add all of your data into the collection with its value as index. At the same time, use the "On Error Resume Next" to ignore once you add the duplicated value into the collection. After all values were added into the collection, you could loop through it and pass the value into the combo box. I believe that this way would provide you faster than check all of the existing value in combo box before adding the new one into.
3. ListCount will return the number of all value added into the combobox.
Meng
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by: VKPosted on 2003-07-04 at 06:59:40ID: 8856599
1.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim i As Long
' Set the Combo1.Style = vbComboDropdownList at desgn time !!
For i = Asc("A") To Asc("Z")
Combo1.AddItem Chr(i)
Next
MsgBox Combo1.ListCount
End Sub
2. If you type a text in the closed combo you will get the text of the found item displayed in the combo.
If the text of the combo is like the text displayed in the textbox-portion of the combo ComboBox1.Listindex=-1 will be true.
So you could check this property if you have the need of 1.) too
else do the SEndmessage API:
http://www.geocities.com/S
3. See MsgBox Combo1.ListCount in 1.)
Good luck !
V.K.