Comments on: Aborting combobox dropdown, showing dialog box

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:51:18 +0000

I don’t know whether SendKeys would work for this or not. Not really that relevant, though; I can’t imagine ever using SendKeys in production code.

By: Rozon

Rozon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:02:59 +0000

What about SendKeys::Send(”{ENTER}”);

By: LuvsNPR

LuvsNPR — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:16:21 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip. I encountered the same issue yesterday and was astounded to find that your fix is still applicable 3 years later!

By: bullbonebro [RUS]

bullbonebro [RUS] — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:54:00 +0000

Guys, you’re supreme!

By: UK developer

UK developer — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 11:01:00 +0000

Joe, I could kiss you.

By: Laurent Muller

Laurent Muller — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:47:00 +0000

Hello !
I just use a simplified sub

Protected Overrides Sub OnDropDown(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
MyBase.RecreateHandle()
PostMessage(Me.Handle.ToInt32, CB_SHOWDROPDOWN, 0, 0)
End Sub

Best

Laurent

By: René Paw Christensen

René Paw Christensen — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:30:00 +0000

Thank you Joe.

I was developing something similar as you, and your solution to awoid the dropdown from occuring worked!

IMHO setting the "DroppedDown" property in the "DropDown" event handler should do the same - but it doesn't.

Thank you.

Live Long and Prosper
René Paw Christensen