How to edit the combobox's text like a normal textbox?

[hellswraith]

I have a combobox that I use as a url address bar in my app. The problem I am having is I can't use my mouse to highlight certain parts of the text. When I click on the text, it is all highlighted, but then when I try to click at the end of the text and drag my mouse over it as to highlight certain parts of it, it doesn't work.

For example, if I have this text in the combobox:
http://www.vbforums.com/something.htm
and I want to highlight the /something.htm part of it so I can delete it, I can't. I would have to position the cursor at the end, and push the backspace key.

Is there a way to fix this?

[hellswraith]

No one huh? Am I going to have to make a custom control just to do this? Seems unreasonable, but will do it if I have to.

[Slow_Learner]

Seems to me you could mess with the ComboBox.SelectionStart and SelectionLength properties on the MouseDown event, or just get comfortable with the MS editing keys (control-shift-left, control-shift-right to select a word at a time).

[hellswraith]

Seems like an awful lot of code to do this for something a textbox does automatically.

I think I would rather create my own control that is based on the textbox, but add some combo box functionality....not sure yet.

Anyone else have any ideas? A property that I am forgetting maybe?

[Slow_Learner]

Dunno if it's going to end up any simpler to add pulldown guts to TextBox than it will be to add mouse selection guts to ComboBox... Good luck though.

[hellswraith]

Originally posted by Slow_Learner
Dunno if it's going to end up any simpler to add pulldown guts to TextBox than it will be to add mouse selection guts to ComboBox... Good luck though.

I am not so sure. I can easily make a user control that has a combobox under a textbox, and only the down arrow showing. Then when ever the text is changed in one, it is reflected in the other... Seems easy, but who knows. Of course, then I have to deal with the resizing, and maybe do a little GDI+ work to make it look pretty.

[Edneeis]

This may or may not help you but I wanted a specific look to a combo for a project, basically a label with a dropdown list. So I made a wrapper class to add the label over the combo. You'd have to add a button too but it should give you a way to easily replace teh text part of the combo with a normal textbox without making a whole new control. All hail inheritance.

[Edneeis]

Actually it turns out there is no Sunday night football game so I worked up one that uses a textbox and button. It might need some fine tuning to your liking but it should get you a good start.

[hellswraith]

Thanks a lot, that was exactly what I was thinking of doing, just didn't do it yet....

Thanks again.