Combo Box slected index changed

[msx23]

Hi, I'm playing around with a form and I want it to know if I've changed the contents of a combo box (selecting a new index that is, it doesn't take text extry) placed on it. So I just made a global bool variable 'ComboBoxChanged' initialized as FALSE, and I set it to TRUE upon handling the ComboBox.SelectedIndexChanged event. The problem I have is that the event is triggered when the form is loaded, thus setting my 'ComboBoxChanged' variable event though I haven't actually selected a new index. What do you guys think is the best solution to this? Thanks for any help.

[Christian Graus]

Don't use global varuables ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

[darkelv]

When the combo box is being populated, the selected index changed is fired on every item (don't ask me why). So you may need another form wide variable or in your inherited combo box to keep track of whether the combo box is being populated.

[DaveyM69]

An easy work around for this is to set enabled to false before populating it then to true when it's finished. You can then check the enabled state in the SelectedIndexChanged and only alter your global variable if Enabled == true;

Dave