Hi,
I am using a Combobox Control in FireFly with the CBS_DROPDOWN Style, this style allows me to Edit/Change the content of the Edit Box from the keyboard.
Can anyone tell me how I can programmatically read the changed text content of the Combobox Edit box.
The FireFly FF_ComboBox_GetText command only reads the content of the Combobox's selected index.?? not the text in the Edit Box.
Any assistance appreciated. 8)
Regards Gian
Gian Young Australia
Hi Gian,
I am pretty sure that a simple FF_Control_GetText will retrieve the text from the edit box:
FF_Control_GetText(HWND_FORM1_COMBO1)
Thank you for your reply Paul.
You are quite correct, FF_Control_GetText (HWND_FORM1_COMBO1)
works as needed.
I now feel a jerk because I swear I tried this unsuccessfully before posting the question. :oops:
Anyway it's welcome to know that help is at hand when required. :)
Best Regards
Gian
The Edit Portion is also a child of the Combo, so you could get even more creative and set it up and send messages to it like an Edit control. I can't recall the ID offhand, but I gave it to Paul sometime back, and I think it may still be used in generated code...plus WinSpy can give it to you. It is something simple like 101 or something.
Hi,
I'm also using a ComboBox control in FireFly with the CBS_DROPDOWN style (Editable ComboBox like a TextBox) for the first time.
It seems we can use both FF_Control_GetText or FF_Textbox_GetText to retrieve the text from the ComboBox in this case.
Paul is there any difference between these two functions ?
Thank you
Jean-Pierre.
If you look at the generated code for those functions you will notice that the ff_control_gettext uses:
GetWindowText hWndControl, ByVal StrPtr(nBuffer), nBufferSize
The ff_combobox_gettext uses:
If SendMessage( hWndControl, %CB_GETLBTEXT, nIndex, ByVal StrPtr(nBuffer)) = %CB_ERR Then
Personally, if there is a more specific message for a control then I would use that (i.e. ff_combobox_gettext).
Hi Paul,
Thank you you for your reply but my question was between FF_Control_GetText and FF_Textbox_GetText; in this cas the generated code seems to be the same.
Jean-Pierre