Force combo box list to drop?

[Scotte Meredith]

You could trap the key events and put them together in a string, and ach rime doing a $search in the list to select the line. 


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> On Oct 16, 2024, at 7:47 PM, Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Scotte,
> 
> That seems to work.  Now, I'd like to make it so that as the user continues to type, the current line in the list is updated and the position scrolled so we can see it.
> 
> Is that possible?  Is it something like calculate $cwind.$objs.comboboxfieldname.$vscroll as listname.$line ?
> 
> Regards
> Paul.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 17 Oct 2024, at 10:19 am, Scotte Meredith <spomacguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe try a Queue Click on the field.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On Oct 16, 2024, at 6:53 PM, Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi $all,
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to make the droplist for a combo to drop down using command or notation?  I'm trying to make an auto-complete field and there's a number of matches - it would be cool to show them in a droplist underneath the field and I thought a combo box might be the easiest way to get there.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Paul.
>>> 
>>> 
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