Highlighting Text in a Combo Box 1

[Lukeage]

Hi all,

I'm not really a great programmer so I'm hoping somebody out there can help me out. I have a Combo Box on a form which has pre-defined items. What I need to do is programmatically change the item shown in the combo box to another in the list when a button is pressed. Added to this burdon, I'm also trying not only to select a different item in the list, but also to highlight it as if it had been selected by mouse click.

The hair I still have left is getting greyer by the day.

Hope someone can help me out.

 

[hstijnen]

Set the ItemIndex

 

[Lukeage]

hstijnen,

Thanks for responding. I can't do that, the problem is that the item in the list that I need to pick is defined by an item read from a database (which is text). So if the item read from the database is 'Invoice' then I need to switch focus to the 'Invoice' item, if it is 'Letter' then I need to switch to the 'Letter' item (the index offset will be unknown because I'm using only text). I guess what I'm going to have to consider doing is using a switch case statement to identify which Index offset applies given the item read from the database.....then I can use ItemIndex as you have suggested.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated

 

[onrdbandit]

howdy,

maybe you should just iterate through the list to see which item is in which place:

AnsiString StringFromDatabase;

for(int a = 0; a < ComboBox->Items->Count; a++)
{
 if(ComboBox->Items[a] == StringFromDatabase)
 {
  ComboBox->ItemIndex = a;
 }
}

NOTE:
You may have to replace the

Items[a]

with this

Items->operator[](a)

. They are supposed to be the same thing programmatically, but I think i have had trouble getting the previous to compile before....

Good Luck,
onrdbandit

 

[itsgsd]

Look at the IndexOf function:

  ComboBox->ItemIndex = ComboBox->Items->IndexOf(StringFromDatabase);

Good Luck.

 

[Lukeage]

Thanks everybody for your help. I've solved the problem using the replies that you gave me. Special thanks to itsgsd for the best one liner I've ever copied that works.

This place is fantastic.

 

[onrdbandit]

neat, ill have to keep that in mind...