Embarrassing Newbie Question.........

[PetergUK]

Ok, sorry about to lower the standards guys, but i have to post this question:

I have a form on which i have two combo boxes pre-loaded with 1 - 24 indicating hours, and 0, 5, 10.... up to 55 to indicate minutes. I have used the .additem method in the form's load event to do this.

What i want to do is allow the user to select the required hours and minutes to be used in a timer event. I don't have any problems with the conversion stuff.

My problems are in fact, twofold. The first is this:

I am trying to identify when the user changes a value. Being used to Access, i looked for an afterupdate event, but no such luck... :-( I have found the change event, and can't understand why this doesn't work:

Private Sub cboHours_Change()

lblHours = cboHours.Text
lblHours.Refresh

End Sub

Why don't i see the selected value in lblHours????

My second problem, is how do i store the selected values so that when the program is re-opened, the vlues are still there? I'd like to see them displayed, but still offer the values i listed at the beginning of my posting.

Thank guys.

[Serge]

1. You shoud use Combo's Click event instead:

Private Sub cboHours_Click()
    lblHours.Caption = cboHours.List(cboHours.ListIndex)
End Sub

2. You can save your selection in the registry and then use the value from there:

Private Sub Form_Load()
    'Your loading process for cboHours and cboMinutes goes here
    
    
    'Get posiotion of an item for each combobox from the registry
    cboHours.ListIndex = GetSetting("MyProgram", "ProgramSettings", "cboHours", 0)
    cboMinues.ListIndex = GetSetting("MyProgram", "ProgramSettings", "cboMinutes", 0)
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
    'Save position of an item in each combobox
    SaveSetting "MyProgram", "ProgramSettings", "cboHours", cboHours.ListIndex
    SaveSetting "MyProgram", "ProgramSettings", "cboMinutes", cboMinutes.ListIndex
End Sub

Regards,

[PetergUK]

Thanks Serge!!!!

A couple of questions....... Can you clarify for me when i should use the change as opposed to the click event, and will the registry settings work as i develop the program in VB Professional, or do i have to "install" it? I presume the "Program Name" string is the name of my project.

The change event is like the change event of the textbox - it only fires when the user edits the text in the combo. Therefore, it doesn't work when the style is 2 - Dropdown List, cos the user can't edit the contents of the combo.

- gaffa

Oh, and the registry settings will work as soon as you run the program in the development environment.

- gaffa

[Serge]

Yes, that's correct. All registry entries willbe created when you close your form (do not press end button in VB IDE).