ComboBox (wfxComboBox)

Properties

Name Description
AllowDrop Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the control will accept data that is dragged onto it.
Anchor Specifies how a control anchors to the edges of its Form.
CtrlId Gets or sets a value indicating the control ID of the control.
CtrlType Gets or sets the control type value. Always ControlType.ComboBox and used when adding control to the application’s form collection.
DropDownStyle Gets or sets the style of the control. Refer to the ComboBoxStyle Enum
Enabled Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the control can respond to user interaction.
Focused Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the control has input focus.
Font Gets or sets the font for the control. Refer to the Font object.
Height Gets or sets the height of the control.
hWindow Gets the Windows handle (hwnd) of the control.
hWindowParent Gets or sets the Windows handle (hwnd) of the parent control.
IntegralHeight Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the list can contain only complete items.
Item Gets or sets properties of an Item wfxComboBoxItem object
Items Gets or sets properties of an Items wfxComboBoxItemsCollection collection object
Left Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the left edge of the control and the left edge of its container's client area (normally the form).
Location Gets or sets the top and left position of the control. Get: returns wfxPoint object. Set: (left, top).
Locked Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the control can be moved or resized.
Parent Gets or sets the parent container of the control.
SelectedItem Gets or sets the selected item in the combobox (using a wfxComboBoxItem object).
SelectedIndex Gets or sets the index value of the selected item in the combobox.
Size Gets or sets the size of the form. Get: returns wfxSize object. Set: (width, height)
Sorted Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating if the combobox should be sorted.
TabIndex Gets or sets the position that the control occupies in the TAB position.
TabStop Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the user can use the TAB key to give focus to the control.
Tag Gets or sets user defined text associated with the form.
Top Gets or sets the distance, in pixels, between the top edge of the control and the top edge of its container's client area (normally the form).
Visible Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the control is displayed.
Width Gets or sets the width of the control.

Methods

Name Description
Hide Conceals the control from the user.
Refresh Forces the form to invalidate its client area and immediately redraw itself and any child controls.
SelectNextControl Moves the input control to the next (True) or previous (False) control in the tab order.
SetBounds Sets the bounds of the control to the specified location and size. SetBounds(left, top, width, height).
Show Creates and displays the control to the user.

Events

Name Description
AllEvents Special handler where all events are routed through. Use this handler if you prefer to use the Win32 api style messages and wParam and lParam parameters. Set the Handled element of EventArgs to true if you handle a message and do not want Windows to perform any further processing on the message.
Click Occurs when the client area of the control is clicked.
Destroy Occurs immediately before the control is about to be destroyed and all resources associated with it released.
DropFiles Occurs when an object is dragged and dropped onto the control and the AllowDrop property of the control is set to True.
GotFocus Occurs when the control receives focus.
LostFocus Occurs when the control loses focus.
KeyDown Occurs when a key is pressed while the control has focus.
KeyPress Occurs when a character, space or backspace key is pressed while the control has focus.
KeyUp Occurs when a key is released while the control has focus.
MouseDoubleClick Occurs when the control is double clicked by the mouse.
MouseDown Occurs when the mouse pointer is over the control and a mouse button is pressed.
MouseEnter Occurs when the mouse pointer enters the control.
MouseHover Occurs when the mouse pointer rests on the control.
MouseLeave Occurs when the mouse pointer leaves the control.
MouseMove Occurs when the mouse pointer is moved over the control.
MouseUp Occurs when the mouse pointer is over the control and a mouse button is released.
DropDown Occurs when the drop-down portion of the combobox is shown.
DropDownClosed Indicates that the drop-down portion of the combobox has closed.
TextChanged Occurs when the Text property is changed by either a programmatic modification or user interaction. Only valid for DropDownStyle equal to ComboBoxStyle.Simple

Items Collection (wfxComboBoxItemsCollection)

Name Description
Add Add a new item (and optional 32bit value) to the combobox.
ByIndex Return the wfxComboBoxItem object related to the specified combobox item index.
Clear Removes all items from the combobox.
Count Returns the total number of items in the combobox.
Remove Remove/delete the item identified by the index value.
SelectedCount Returns the total number of selected items in the combobox.

Item (wfxComboBoxItem)

Name Description
Index The index value related to the combobox item.
Selected Gets or sets a value (true/false) indicating whether the Item is selected.
Text The text associated with this combobox item.
Data32 The optional 32bit value associated with this combobox item.

Working with a ComboBox

Adding items (Text and 32-bit user defined value)

nIndex = Form1.Combo1.Items.Add("First item in ComboBox”, 12345)

Adding items (Text only)

nIndex = Form1.Combo1.Items.Add("Second item in ComboBox”)

Deleting an Item (the selected item)

Form1.Combo1.Items.Remove(Form1.Combo1.SelectedIndex)

Deleting an Item (based on index)

Form1.Combo1.Items.Remove(0)  ‘ removes the first Combobox item

Remove all Items from the ComboBox

Form1.Combo1.Items.Clear

Iterate all items in ComboBox

For i as long = 0 to Form1.Combo.Items.Count – 1
   ? Form1.Combo1.Item(i).Text, Form1.Combo1.Item(i).Data32
Next
ComboBoxStyle
Enum ComboBoxStyle
   Simple = 1
   DropDown
   DropDownList
End Enum
wfxSize
Type wfxSize
   private:
      _Width  as Long
      _Height as long 

   public:
      Declare Property Width() As Long
      Declare Property Width( ByVal nValue As Long )
      Declare Property Height() As Long
      Declare Property Height( ByVal nValue As Long )
      Declare Function IsEmpty() as Boolean
      Declare Constructor ( byval nWidth as long = 0, byval nHeight as long = 0)
End Type
wfxPoint
Type wfxPoint
   private:
      _x as Long
      _y as long 

   public:
      Declare Property x() As Long
      Declare Property x( ByVal nValue As Long )
      Declare Property y() As Long
      Declare Property y( ByVal nValue As Long )
      Declare Function IsEmpty() as Boolean
      Declare Constructor ( byval xPos as long = 0, byval yPos as long = 0)
End Type