click event in combo when value is changed

Hello,

I've got a form with a few combo boxes on it. The style of the boxes is set to "2 - Dropdown List"

in some other code i set the value of the comboboxes to something: eg

combo1.text = "hi there"

but when i do this it fires off the "click" event of the combo box (which does a whole heap of other processing that i don't want to do unless the user itself clicks the combo box - not when i change it programatically).

Is there a way to avoid the click event firing when the text of the combo box is set from within the code. I still want it to happen when the user actually clicks the combo.

Thanks - it's a bit important

if i'm not being clear then ask me - i'll explain better.

Mark

Try this primitive approach until I find something more professional:

Code:

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Option Explicit
Dim blClick As Boolean '//boolean used to determine if the
'//user click the combo or if the text changed with code

Private Sub Combo1_Click()
    If blClick = False Then '//user chose to click the combo himself/herself
        '//do whatever you want when the user clicks the combobox
        MsgBox "Combo has been clicked"
    End If
   
    blClick = False '//reset the boolean
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    blClick = True '//text of the combo will be changed with code
    Combo1.Text = "Welcomes" '//change the combo's text
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    '//just to populate the combo
    With Combo1
        .AddItem "John"
        .AddItem "Welcomes"
        .AddItem "To"
        .AddItem "VB"
        .AddItem "World"
    End With
End Sub

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I hope you can follow what I did.

Thanks QWERTY,

it may be that i have to take an approach like that - although it is not the nicest way (like you said).

i have discovered though if the combobox's style property is set to "0 - Dropdown Combo" the problem doesn't exist - ie the click event isn't fired - however if i use this style then the user can type whatever they want in the combobox which opens another can of worms.