ComboBox Value

[RandomCoder]

Hi Erel,

I have a form with several fields, some of these fields use ComboBox's to limit the choice to the user. I would like to be able to get the value from each ComboBox and the rest of the controls when the user clicks the finish button.

At present there appears to be two methods of doing this...
1) Use the SelectionChanged event on each ComboBox to obtain and store the value/text in a Global variable until the finish button is pressed.
2) On pressing the finish button, look at the SelectedIndex property for each ComboBox and then use a Select Case to determine what the actual value/text is.
Neither is particularly pretty.

It would be far better for me if I could just look at the value/text that has been selected when the finish button is pressed. Something like...

Field1Value=ComboBox1.Text

Is it possible to include a text property?? Maybe in the next version??

Regards,
RandomCoder

[BjornF]

I don't understand, why do you need the "select case" (in your alternative 2)?

Doesn't this give the text from the combobox:
txt=ComboBox.Item(ComboBox.SelectedIndex)

(It does for me )

[RandomCoder]

Thanks BjornF,

That's exactly what I was after (albiet a slight workaround)

I was using...

txt=ComboBox.SelectedIndex

which just returns the position of the chosen item

Regards,
RandomCoder

[Vito]

I have used:

Temp=combobox1.text

it works...!

Bye

[specci48]

A combobox has is no official .text property.
Is it a bug or an "undocumented feature"

I think it shouldn't be used because it may not be supported in future versions of basic4ppc.


specci48

[Erel]

The problem with ComboBox.Text is that on the desktop the user can write in the combobox and it will return the text that the user wrote.
The write syntax is: ComboBox.Item(ComboBox.SelectedItem)