>I've been having difficulty persuading Visual FoxPro comboboxes to behave rationally. I have a KeyPress event looking for ENTER to execute some code to populate the drop down. I also have an Interactive Change and/or a Click event to tell me when a selection from the dropdown is made.
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>Problem is, the KeyPress event works fine, but if I use Interactive Change or Click event I can never tell when an ENTER is done with the list dropped down or not. If is is hit when the drop down is on, I want to select the value entered on, other wise I want to us the display value.
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>Bizzarely enough using a the ListIndex often returns greater than zero when new values are being entered, when I had assumed it would be set to zero when you started tying characters not seen in the drop down.
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>What is the standard method of handling combobox entry?
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>Thanks in advance
>Grant
Hi Grant,
I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish here interface-wise but if I were you, I'd rip out all that interactivechange and keypress stuff and just use the displayvalue of the combobox at the time of the combobox valid. As I said, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. But it seems to me that you're over-complicating things.
Good luck
Hugh