Un Dropping Down a Drop Down

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I have an application I am developing that has a Combo Box that is
intended to show a list of available tables in the selected DSN. I
have put code in the control's DropDown event handler to clear the
item list and reload it from the currently specified DSN (in a Text
Box control on the same form). This works well.

BUT ... if the specified DSN is invalid, I can display an appropriate
error message, but then then empty dropdown list is still displayed. I
have tried to suppress it by setting the control's DroppedDown
property to false if the error is encountered, but the empty dropdown
list is still being displayed and I have to click on the dropdown
button again to make it go away. What is also interesting is when I
click on the dropdown button to make it go away, the DropDown event
does not fire, only when it is first clicked.

So, how do I un-drop down a drop down?
 
If there is an error, you could just hide the drop down list to prevent the
user from using it.

Adrian.
 
Thenks, but it didn't help.
Click to expand...

Alt + Down will toggle the drop down list up or down so you could
experiment with either SendKeys.Send or even try using the SendMessage
API to tell the combobox's handle to try to force the drop down to
hide.

Good Luck!

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
IIRC, setting DroppedDown in the handler is too soon, and it doesn't
work. You could try adding a delay, either using this.BeginInvoke, or
a short timer?

Marc
 
Alt + Down will toggle the drop down list up or down so you could
experiment with either SendKeys.Send or even try using the SendMessage
API to tell the combobox's handle to try to force the drop down to
hide.
Click to expand...

The Alt Down does work from the keyboard. So I put an:

SendKeys.Send("%{down}")

in the DropDown event error branch, but alas, it does not appear to
have any effect.

It's almost like the dropdown occurs AFTER and user code in the
DropDown event, and there is not a DroppedDown event to put code in to
undrop it.

ARGHHH!
 
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