dropdown combobox

Is there any way to raise a event that would drop down the combo box as a user types with the closest match highligted

Maybe this is what you need?

paste this into a form that has a combobox called MyCombo:

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
  ComboExtendedUI(MyCombo) = True

  With MyCombo
      .AddItem "Aepfel"
      .AddItem "spatzen"
      .AddItem "Aerger"
      .AddItem "gieskanne"
      .AddItem "flasche"
      .AddItem "uhr"
      .AddItem "Ananas"
      .AddItem "wandschrand"
      .AddItem "Ameise"
      .AddItem "computer"
      .AddItem "Aroma"
      .AddItem "ordner"
      .AddItem "akten"
      .AddItem "datum"
      .AddItem "bambus"
  End With
End Sub

Private Sub MyCombo_GotFocus()
    SendKeys "{DOWN}"
End Sub

Private Sub MyCombo_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
  KeyAscii = AutoFind(MyCombo, KeyAscii, False)
End Sub

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this goes into a module:

Code:

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Option Explicit

Const CB_GETEXTENDEDUI = &H156
Const CB_SETEXTENDEDUI = &H155
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
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Const CB_FINDSTRING = &H14C
Const CB_ERR = (-1)
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _
    ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) _
  As Long
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Property Let ComboExtendedUI(ByRef cboThis As ComboBox, ByVal bState As Boolean)
    ' Set whether combo box drops down using the Down Arrow or not:
    SendMessageLong cboThis.hwnd, CB_SETEXTENDEDUI, Abs(bState), 0
End Property

Public Property Get ComboExtendedUI(ByRef cboThis As ComboBox) As Boolean
    ' Get whether combo box drops down using the Down Arrow or not:
    ComboExtendedUI = (SendMessageLong(cboThis.hwnd, CB_GETEXTENDEDUI, 0, 0) <> 0)
End Property
'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Public Function AutoFind(ByRef cboCurrent As ComboBox, _
                        ByVal KeyAscii As Integer, _
                        Optional ByVal LimitToList As Boolean = False)
       
Dim lCB As Long
Dim sFindString As String

On Error GoTo Err_Handler
    If KeyAscii = 8 Then
        If cboCurrent.SelStart <= 1 Then
            cboCurrent = ""
            AutoFind = 0
            Exit Function
        End If
        If cboCurrent.SelLength = 0 Then
            sFindString = UCase(Left(cboCurrent, Len(cboCurrent) - 1))
        Else
            sFindString = Left$(cboCurrent.Text, cboCurrent.SelStart - 1)
        End If
    ElseIf KeyAscii < 32 Or KeyAscii > 255 Then
        Exit Function
    Else
        If cboCurrent.SelLength = 0 Then
            sFindString = UCase(cboCurrent.Text & Chr$(KeyAscii))
        Else
            sFindString = Left$(cboCurrent.Text, cboCurrent.SelStart) & Chr$(KeyAscii)
        End If
    End If
    lCB = SendMessage(cboCurrent.hwnd, CB_FINDSTRING, -1, ByVal sFindString)

    If lCB <> CB_ERR Then
        cboCurrent.ListIndex = lCB
        cboCurrent.SelStart = Len(sFindString)
        cboCurrent.SelLength = Len(cboCurrent.Text) - cboCurrent.SelStart
        AutoFind = 0
    Else
        If LimitToList = True Then
            AutoFind = 0
        Else
            AutoFind = KeyAscii
        End If
    End If
       
Err_Handler:

End Function

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hope, this helps

if the info in the list is in a database then this will work also:

Code:

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Private Sub txtCity_KeyUp(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
If KeyCode <> 8 And Len(txtCity.Text) > 1 And Shift = 0 Then
pWord = txtCity.Text
On Error GoTo nomatch
deTracker.rstbCmns.Filter = "City Like '" & pWord & "*'"
deTracker.rstbCmns.MoveFirst
txtCity.Text = txtCity.Text & Mid(deTracker.rstbCmns!City, Len(pWord) + 1, Len(deTracker.rstbCmns!City))
txtCity.SelStart = Len(pWord)
txtCity.SelLength = Len(txtCity.Text) - Len(pWord)
nomatch:
ElseIf Shift = 1 Then
txtCity.SelStart = Len(pWord)
txtCity.SelLength = Len(txtCity.Text) - Len(pWord)
End If
End Sub

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txtCity being a textbox (although it should work with anything)
deTracker being the data environment
rstbCmns is the command recordset with the list in it

[Edited by Edneeis on 09-01-2000 at 03:33 AM]

I like the above code..I was hoping to us it with data Combo, not to sure how to modify it for example datacontrols don't have listindex. Can you show me how to use the code on datacontrols

Gerard

Have you tried setting the following in the properties of data combo?

MatchEntry = 1 dblEntendedMatching
Style = 2 dbcDropDownList