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Combo Box
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.
James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.
Styles
A combo box has three different styles:
0 - Dropdown Combo
1 - Simple Combo
2 - Dropdown List
Style 0 allows the user to either select an item on the dropdown list, or
enter their own value.
Style 1 allows the user to either select an item on the dropdown list, or
enter their own value. However it looks more like a combination of a text box and list
box.
Style 2 only allows the user to select an item on the dropdown list
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Try this:
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Text")
It's pretty flexible, you can put just about anything in there:
ComboBox1.Items.Add("Text" & RichTextBox1.Text & someVariable & etc.)
- Vincent
The .AddItem is to add items to the Combo Box at run time. This is normally the preferred way of doing this instead of doing it through the properties of the Combo Box.
Usage:
Combo1.AddItem "String"
Yeah, I was getting an error like "Invalid procedure call or argument" (Runtime error 5). It seems to work if I remove the index # (rather than Combo1.Additem "Blah" 2, just Combo1.Additem "Blah").
Combo1.AddItem tells me that it's a wrong code.