Thread: Combobox that doesn't drop down

I'm trying to use comboboxes, but I'm having a hard time to get it to work just right.

I'm using a combo box with the drop-down property, it's not a simple combobox. In my code, I add strings to the combo box, but not data. When I click the arrow that is supposed to make the list box container drop down, it's empty. However, when I use the arrow keys, I can select the strings that I added to the combo box as well as their indexes.

So I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the actual list box of the combo box control, and I've tried almost everything I can think of, but I can't seem to find the problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

My goodness. And to think I spent hours trying to figure it out. It worked.

Thank you very much.

Hopefully you both are still monitoring this thread.

I seem to be having th same problem. When I click the arrow on the right that should drop down the box...nothing happens. I am not sure what you meant with the height option. I have no option where I can specify height. I am using ms Visual Studio and the combo box is only allowed to be drawn at with one height (the resize boxes are disable for vertical re-size, it only lets you re-size it horizontally). I then thought maybe you meant that you shouldn't have any control to close udner it to allow room for opening. That didn't help either. What else should I try. Thanks again.

In the resource editor, click on the array of the combo box. This will display a sizing rectangle that specifies the height of the drop down listbox.

gg

Got it. Thanks

Actually what was happening is I had the OwnerDraw setting turned on. As soon as I turned it off everything worked like a charm. Thanks for your response.

Cool.

Clicking on the arrow of the combo box works too

gg