Combobox scroll to item

[bflosabre91]

I have a combobox that i want to be able to programmatically scroll down to what the user types. It, of course, works how i would like it to when you highlight the combobox and type using a keyboard, but its a touch screen app so the keyboard is on the screen as buttons. Anyone have any idea how one would go about making a search function on the combobox to allow the user to start typing using an on screen keyboard, and scrolling the combobox to whatever the user is typing. thanks everyone

[chris128]

Is this on screen keyboard part of your application? I mean when one of the virtual keyboard buttons is pressed, does the combobox loose focus?

[bflosabre91]

yes they are part of my app. the combobox doesnt lose focus when the letters are pressed. i was hoping to put it in the keyboard button click event, put an if combobox.isfocused then do the scrolling. but the scrolling is what i dont know how to do. thanks.

[chris128]

If they are part of your app then I'm not sure how the combobox can still have focus when you press a button...
Anyway, it would be quite hard (I think) to actually expand the combobox and just highlight an item in it - however it would be quite easy to make it actually select a value from the combobox based on what they typed. Simply set the SelectedItem property to whatever item matches what they have typed.