Combo Boxes

[gvaughn]

Is there a way to remove the "arrow" from the right of the combo box. I have
small comboboxes and it interfers with viewing the information? Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[KARL DEWEY]

Why not just widen the combo?

 

[gvaughn]

just wanted to see if there is a way. Also I want to end user to see the data
first generated aways, but they don't really need to use the arrow for
anyhting.

 

[Damon Heron]

"but they don't really need to use the arrow for anyhting."
Then use a textbox!

Damon

 

[John Spencer]

One way that might work is to stack two controls on top of each other -
a combobox and a textbox.

-- Bind the two controls to the same control source.
-- Make the combobox narrower than the textbox
-- make sure the textbox is on top of the combobox. (Menu: Format: Move
to Front]
-- In the got focus event of the textbox, change the width of the
combobox to be wide enough to show the data and the "arrow"
-- Use Me.comboboxName.SetFocus to move the focus to the combobox.

-- In the lostFocus event of the combobox set the width of the combobox
control to shrink it so it will be hidden by the textbox.

-- OH, and set the tabstop property of the combobox to NO so you won't
tab into it. That will will be handled by tabbing into the related text
control.

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John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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