This is my first post, so hello all. I'm glad I discovered this forum, it been of great help.

OK, I have a simple VB combo box and the old problem of not being able to see the full text of the dropdown items cos the length of the text is too long.

I've read in previous posts how to increase the size of the dropdown width, but I was thinking more in the line of Windows explorer and how it shows a tooltips type label if the text doesn't fit within a window.

So my question is how can I show the full text in a combo box, where the text is longer then the width of the drop down without increasing the width of the dropdown.

I've seen many standard windows applications using a method of displaying a yellow tooltips style text to show the full text in listboxes, tree views etc, but how can I do this with the standard combo?