[VB6] Combo Box Text > ComboBox Width

[James Rose]

Hello,

We've got a large app, and in a few cases we have templates for notes. These templates reside in a combo box (when selected fill a RichTextBox) but while selecting the end-user cannot see the full text (see attached example) I have seen custom ComboBoxes that show the full text of an item, or items. Is there any API or trick to do this?

Thank you kindly,

James Rose

[azcodemonkey]

Maybe this will work:

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Tips/...box/article.asp

That seems like the simplest solution. Anything else would probably require a 3rd party control, or subclassing.

[James Rose]

Thanks Weener,

That was close to the solution I found. Niether are REALLY what I want, but at least it is something.

If anyone knows a extended combo box control that extends the dialog text AND wraps the text so that the info does not go off the edge of the screen (which then hides the scrollbar, arg!) Please let me know. We can buy a product.

[azcodemonkey]

  jameswjrose said:

Thanks Weener, 

That was close to the solution I found.  Niether are REALLY what I want, but at least it is something.

If anyone knows a extended combo box control that extends the dialog text AND wraps the text so that the info does not go off the edge of the screen (which then hides the scrollbar, arg!) Please let me know.  We can buy a product.

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What I do in that situation is popup a tooltip with the full text.

http://www.codeproject.com/combobox/xtipcombobox.asp

[sachleen]

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