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To use this type of combo box, the user would click the down pointing arrow button. This causes a list of items to display. If the user finds the desired item in the list, he or she can click it. The item clicked becomes the selection and it gets in the edit box side WPF,Silverlight, of the combo box. WinForms
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A combo box is called Drop Down or Drop List if it is made of an edit box and a down pointing arrow, as described above. Another type of combo box is referred to as Simple. This kind displays its items like a list box. The user does not have to click an arrow button to display the list. When a simple combo box displays, the user can locate the desired item in the list and click it. The selected item becomes the value of the edit side.
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Like a list box or a group of radio buttons, a combo box is used to display a list of items to the user to select from. Like a series of radio buttons, a combo box allows the user to select only one item from the list. Like the list box control, if the number of items is higher than the Eurekaforbes.com/Security-Sy allocated space can accommodate, the combo box is equipped with a vertical scroll bar, Mass Flow whether it is a drop type or a simple kind:
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To create a combo box, you can click the Combo Box button on the Controls toolbox and click the parent window. After adding a combo box, if you want to immediately create its strings, in the Properties window, click the Data field. To create the list of items, type the items separated by a semi-colon.
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After creating the control, probably the next action to take consists of creating its items. To add a string to a combo box, you can call the CComboBox::AddString() method that uses the same syntax as the CListBox::AddString() member function. Here is an example: BOOL CExerciseDlg::OnInitDialog() { CDialog::OnInitDialog(); SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE); // Set big icon SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE); // Set small icon // TODO: Add extra initialization here CComboBox *Majors = new CComboBox; Majors->Create(WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | CBS_DROPDOWNLIST, CRect(10, 50, 100, 150), this, 0x1448); Majors->AddString("Accounting"); Majors->AddString("Art Education"); Majors->AddString("Finance"); Majors->AddString("Biology"); return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control }
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When a user clicks an item in the combo box to select it, you have two options to find out what the user clicked. If you want to know the index of the item that the user clicked, you can call the GetCurSel() method of the CComboBox class. Here is an example: void CExoDlg1Dlg::OnBnClickedSelect() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here m_Categories.GetCurSel(); } When this method is called, if no item is selected in the combo box, the method returns a CB_ERR error. Therefore, before performing any operation, it would be wise to find out the returned value of this method, especially to find out if it produced a CB_ERR error. This can be done as follows: void CExoDlg1Dlg::OnBnClickedSelect() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here int index = m_Categories.GetCurSel(); if( index != CB_ERR ) { // Do Something With the Selected Item } }
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Like any control, for the user to use the combo box, it must first have focus. This can be done by the user clicking its edit part, its list part (for a Simple combo box) or its down pointing arrow (for a drop type combo box). When the combo box receives focus, its sends the ON_CBN_SETFOCUS message. Once the control has focus, if the user clicks or had clicked the edit side of the combo box that already had a selected item, if the user starts typing, which would modify the string of the item that was already selected, the combo box would send the ON_CBN_EDITCHANGE message (remember that the user can change the string only if the combo box was not created as Drop List). If the user finishes typing or changing the string, just before the altered string is validated, the combo box sends the ON_CBN_EDITUPDATE message. To select an item from a drop type combo box, the user usually clicks the down pointing arrow button to display the controls list. When the user clicks that button, just before the list displays, the control sends the ON_CBN_DROPDOWN message. After this click and this message, the list part of a drop combo box displays and the user must make a decision: If the user finds the desired item in the list, he or she must let the combo box know. This is done by highlighting it. To do this, the user can either click (with the mouse) or press the arrow keys (on the keyboard) to indicate his or her choice. When this highlighting occurs, the combo box sends the ON_CBN_SELCHANGE message, notifying the application that the combo box selection may be changed soon Once the user has found the desired item and has possibly highlighted it, if using the mouse, he or she can click to select it. If using the keyboard, after locating the item, the user can press Enter. Clicking the desired item or pressing Enter on the highlighted string means that the user has made a definite selection. This causes the control to send an ON_CBN_SELENDOK message, notifying the application that the user has made his or her decision. If the user did not find the desired item, he or she may want to dismiss the combo box without making a selection. There are three main ways the user can invalidate a selection. If the user clicks another control or another application, if the list was displaying, it would retract and not selection would be made, event if the user had already highlighted an item. If the user clicks either the edit box part of the combo box for a Drop List type or the down pointing button, the selection is dismissed and if the list of a drop type was displaying, it would retract. If the user presses Esc, the selection would be dismissed. Any of these actions causes the selection to be dismissed or the user to cancel the selection action. This causes the combo box to send an ON_CBN_SELENDCANCEL message. Once the user has clicked an item or pressed Enter to validate a selection, if the combo box was created not as Simple, the list part of the controls retracts to hide itself. At this time, the combo box sends an ON_CBN_CLOSEUP message. If the user finishes using the combo box and moves to another control, the combo box sends an ON_CBN_KILLFOCUS message, notifying the application that it (the combo box) has lost focus.
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