Help with Combo boxes

[Luis E Cuadrado]

Hello: I need help with Combo boxes. I have a combo box in a dialog and I want to fill the combo box with some filenames of a specified directory. Then, after filling the combo box, I'm disabling it (it can be enable by a check box in the same dialog). The program complies and runs, and when I load the dialog with the combo box, when I click the check box to enable the combo box, there is nothing in it. This is the code snipet that I have in the ::OnInitDialog() event: ::SetCurrentDirectory(_T("C:\\sounds")); m_cbo.ResetContent(); m_cbo.Dir(DDL_DIRECTORY,_T("*.wav")); m_cbo.EnableWindow(FALSE); Is there something that I'm missing inthe combo box? What can I do to solve this? Any answer is more than welcome. Best regards, Luis E. Cuadrado :0)

[Tomasz Sowinski]

Change DDL_DIRECTORY to DDL_READWRITE. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

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[Mike Upton]

I've just looked at the sample code in the MSDN documentation, and it looks like you might need the DDL_READWRITE flag as well as the DDL_DIRECTORY flag:

m_cbo.Dir(DDL_READWRITE | DDL_DIRECTORY, _T("*.wav"));

I could be wrong though, I've never used CComboBox::Dir. If it still doesn't work, it might be worth checking the return value of the Dir function - it should be a positive value if everything's worked okay. If it returns zero, that means no files were added. A negative value indicates an error.

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[Luis E Cuadrado]

Hello again: I edit the code. I tried using DDL_READWRITE | DDL_DIRECTORY and using just DDL_DIRECTORY and I wasn't able to see any files in the combo box. I click the little arrow of the combo box and nothing comes down. I wonder if is something related with the combo box. Any property that I have to change or something. What do yo guys think? Thanks for the replies, Luis E. Luis E. Cuadrado :0)

[Tomasz Sowinski]

Your combo may have very small dropdown area. In the resource editor, click on the combo box arrow, then resize the dropdown rectangle. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

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