ComboBox question

[Cherry65]

How can i make the combobox's list bigger in height, so it displays more than 1 option at a time...At the moment my combo list displays just 1 option at a time, and id like it to display at least 3 or 4 at a time...i dont know if you understand what im talking about...

Thank you very much,
Cherry

[Niara]

You can use a listbox instead of a combobox, is also a list of options but it haven't got the side button to open the dropdown list (instead you can declare the WS_VSCROLL style to let the user to navigate through all the options, and also can set LBS_DISABLENOSCROLL to hide the scroll bar when the list have no hidden options.

Hope that helps
Niara

[Cherry65]

hmm ya i tryed that too, but it wont solve the problem...it still displays 1 option at a time...and the scroll bar is just 2 buttons(1 to go up and the other down), theres no scrollbar...

[P4R4N01D]

The easiest way is, when declaring the combobox, set the height bigger. The height property of the combobox is actually the height of the list when extended + the height of the combobox. The height of the combobox when the list is not extended is determined by the font size.
Speaking of comboboxes, I can't even get the list to come up.

I declared the combobox as follows

CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_LEFT, "COMBOBOX", "0", CBS_DROPDOWN | 
     CBS_AUTOHSCROLL | CBS_DISABLENOSCROLL | CBS_HASSTRINGS | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
     140, 65, 350, 500, hwnd, (HMENU)1999, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);

& Tried to add a string to it:

    SendMessage(GetDlgItem(hwnd, CTRL_OUT), CB_ADDSTRING, 0, (LPARAM)outputstack);

where char *outputstack = "5607.000000";/ / outputstack can have that value for now