String Item getting truncated in ComboBox

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Hi

I have a combo box that is not owner draw. I am populating the items
in combo box using SendMessage with CB_ADDSTRING. But there is one
problem that I am facing. The width of the drop down list of combo box
is fixed. If I add string with text length more than the width of
combo box, the full string item is not visible. Some part of the
string gets truncated. Please suggest me the solution for this problem

Thanks in advance
-Abhay

[David Lowndes]

Post by a***@gmail.com
I have a combo box that is not owner draw. I am populating the items
in combo box using SendMessage with CB_ADDSTRING. But there is one
problem that I am facing. The width of the drop down list of combo box
is fixed. If I add string with text length more than the width of
combo box, the full string item is not visible. Some part of the
string gets truncated. Please suggest me the solution for this problem

You can alter the width of the drop-list using
CComboBox::SetDroppedWidth.

Dave

[Joseph M. Newcomer]

Two solutions. Both require that you track the string lengths. See my essay on doing
this for a CLIstBox; you would do the same for a combo box

http://www.flounder.com/hscroll.htm

But in a combo box, you can also use CComboBox::SetDroppedWidth to set the dropdown size
to be wide enough to hold the widest string.
joe

Post by a***@gmail.com
Hi
I have a combo box that is not owner draw. I am populating the items
in combo box using SendMessage with CB_ADDSTRING. But there is one
problem that I am facing. The width of the drop down list of combo box
is fixed. If I add string with text length more than the width of
combo box, the full string item is not visible. Some part of the
string gets truncated. Please suggest me the solution for this problem
Thanks in advance
-Abhay

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Anoth

Post by a***@gmail.com
Hi
I have a combo box that is not owner draw. I am populating the items
in combo box using SendMessage with CB_ADDSTRING. But there is one
problem that I am facing. The width of the drop down list of combo box
is fixed. If I add string with text length more than the width of
combo box, the full string item is not visible. Some part of the
string gets truncated. Please suggest me the solution for this problem
Thanks in advance
-Abhay

Another thing you can do is use Horizontal and Vertical Scroll bar