combo box and sendmessage

we know that combo box accepts calls rfom the sendmessage api to show its dropdow list progrmatically something like this

Code:

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Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Long) As Long
Private Const CB_SHOWDROPDOWN = &H14F

Dim lRet As Long
lRet = SendMessage(Contr.hwnd, CB_SHOWDROPDOWN, 1, ByVal 0&)

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i m making a user control that depends on a combo and i want my control to have the same functionality .

can ne1 help me?

thnks

This may or may not help... but rather than using the API, I've used: SendKeys "{f4}" to open a combobox's window programatically. Don't know if it would work in your case?

HTH
Jeff

it will simplify things a lot thnks :)

tried the sendkeys but i have another probelm maybe you solve it
so when i use the sendkeys ({F4},true) the mouse stucks-gets invisible inside the dropdownlist. Any suggestions

Sorry, don't exactly know what you are talking about... I typically don't use the "true" parameter. Try it just as: SendKeys {F4}

I've never experienced the invisible mouse action that you describe. Any chance the mousepointer is "custom" with no mouseicon stipulated (just trying to guess here ;) )

-Jeff