Begginer question about Combobox

[Nauj]

I‘m using VB6.0 and I have a combobox to introduce the year. I want to limit the numer of characters to 4.
Is there any property similar to Maxlength (textbox)in a Combobox.??
Does anybdoy know how to limit the number of characteres to introduce in a Combobox.??

Any advice will be greatly apreciatted.

Thank you very much

[Serge]

There's no direct property to do that, BUT...
You can check the lenght of the text in the EditBox of the ComboBox and if it is 4 then don't allow the user to enter anything else:

Put this on ComboBox KeyPress event:

Private Sub Combo1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    If Len(Combo1.Text) >= 4 And KeyAscii <> vbKeyBack Then
        KeyAscii = 0
    End If
End Sub

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[Ruchi]

You can use SendMessage and CB_LIMITTEXT to simulate MaxLength in a Combo's Edit Box.

Put the following code in the BAS module

Option Explicit

Public Declare Function SetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String) As Long
Declare Function SendMessageLong Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Public Const CB_LIMITTEXT = &H141

Place the ComboBox and a command button on the form. Add the following code.

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim imaxlength As Integer
    
    imaxlength = 6
    
    Call SetWindowText(Combo1.hwnd, "")
    
    Call SendMessageLong(Combo1.hwnd, CB_LIMITTEXT, imaxlength, 0&)
End Sub

Ruchi