TComboBox

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

In the following sample, VALID clause is not fired when the combobox losts the focus:

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#include "Fivewin.ch"


FUNCTION MAIN()

    LOCAL oDlg

    LOCAL oCbx, cVar := SPACE( 20 )

    DEFINE DIALOG oDlg

    @ 1, 1 COMBOBOX oCbx VAR cVar;
           ITEMS { "First", "Second", "Third" };
           STYLE CBS_DROPDOWN;
           VALID ( MSGINFO( "Valid" ), .T. )

    @ 3, 1 BUTTON "&Close" ACTION oDlg:End()

    ACTIVATE DIALOG oDlg;
             CENTER

    RETURN NIL

EMG

[Ugo]

In the following sample, VALID clause is not fired when the combobox losts the focus

Enrico,
not fired when the combobox lost the focus but fired when the button lost the focus!

[Colin Wisbey]

Enrico,

I'm afraid I can't help. I gave up on valid's with comboboxes about 10 years ago after raising the problem many times. I came up with a fix back then (IIRC it required change to CONTROL and also to DEFAULT method in COMBOBOX.prg) but I can no longer find it and it got broken in a subsequent upgrade anyway. I'm not convinced valid on a combobox (without modifications) has ever completely worked (although I could be wrong).

As an aside, although I can confirm the bug you reported, I suggest you avoid using MSGINFO() to test for a VALID as that can shift the focus to the MSGINFO(). I use something like MSGBEEP() instead.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

No problem friends. I reported it only for Antonio. I don't need that fix at all.

EMG

[James Bott]

Theoretically it seems one would not need to validate a combobox selection since only valid options are available in the list.

If you need to call a codeblock for some other use, perhaps you could use bLostFocus.

James

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Please note that the combobox in my sample is a CBS_DROPDOWN one.

EMG

[James Bott]

Enrico,

>Please note that the combobox in my sample is a CBS_DROPDOWN one.

Ops!

James

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Any news?

EMG