Set ComboBox dropped width 1

[MikeCox]

Hi!

I need to set the list portion of a combobox to wider than the control itsself. My book tells me the API SendMessage can widen the list portion of a combo box with a call like this:

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SendMessage Combo1.hWnd, CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH, 300, 0
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The problem is my API viewer cannot find the constant CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH, and scrolling through the CB_ series constants available (win32api.txt, apiload.txt, and mapi32.txt), I can't find anything that remotely looks like what I need. I really don't want to move a listbox in place if I don't have to. Does anyone know how I can declare CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH to make this happen? Or is there another API now that I need to use?

Thank you!

-Mike
Any man willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

-Ben Franklin

 

[chiph]

WinUser.h has this:
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#define CB_GETDROPPEDWIDTH 0x015f
#define CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH 0x0160
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Which translates into VB as:
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Private Const CB_GETDROPPEDWIDTH = &h15f
Private Const CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH = &h160
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Hope this helps.
Chip H.

 

[MikeCox]

Sweet, works as expected! Thanks a million! Any man willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

-Ben Franklin