Combobox search key choice ?

[Efo74]

Hello Autoit People , I don't know if it is possible to solve this problem with a combobox control. In the example I entered, I made a combobox with the following elements AItem 1 | BItem 2 | CItem 3 | DItem 4. During use, the user can expand the control and ... by pressing for example the letter C, it will automatically move to the CItem 3 line ... pressing B to the BItem 2 line and so on. I would like to know if it is possible to change this behavior and allow to press for example 2 to go to the BItem 2 line ... press 4 to go to the DItem4 line. I would like to be able to choose which font to start with for the quick search. In this case, instead of starting from the first character, I would like it to start from character 7. Is it possible somehow ??

Thanks for the support.

code:

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <GuiComboBox.au3>
#include <ComboConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>

Example()

Func Example()
    ; Create a GUI with various controls.
    Local $hGUI = GUICreate("Example", 300, 200)

    ; Create a combobox control.
    Local $idComboBox = GUICtrlCreateCombo("AItem 1", 10, 10, 185, 20,$CBS_DROPDOWNLIST+$WS_VSCROLL)
    Local $idButton_Close = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 210, 170, 85, 25)

    ; Add additional items to the combobox.
    GUICtrlSetData($idComboBox, "BItem 2|CItem 3|DItem 4", "EItem 2")

    ; Display the GUI.
    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $hGUI)

    Local $sComboRead = ""

    ; Loop until the user exits.
    While 1
        Switch GUIGetMsg()
            Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idButton_Close
                ExitLoop

            Case $idComboBox
                $sComboRead = GUICtrlRead($idComboBox)
                MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The combobox is currently displaying: " & $sComboRead, 0, $hGUI)

        EndSwitch
    WEnd

    ; Delete the previous GUI and all controls.
    GUIDelete($hGUI)
EndFunc   ;==>Example

 

[seadoggie01]

It's probably possible other ways, but the simplest would seem to be to re-name your items to look like "1 - AItem 1". Then, when you need the value, remove the first 4 characters with StringTrimLeft($sValue, 4)

If that doesn't work for you, you could look into using GUISetAccelerators, though that would activate the ComboBox item regardless of where you select on the GUI

[Nine]

Here a way you could do it :

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#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <GuiComboBox.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>

Example()

Func Example()
  ; Create a GUI with various controls.
  Local $hGUI = GUICreate("Example", 300, 200)

  ; Create a combobox control.
  Global $idComboBox = GUICtrlCreateCombo("AItem 1", 10, 10, 185, 20)
  Local $idButton_Close = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 210, 170, 85, 25)

  ; Add additional items to the combobox.
  GUICtrlSetData($idComboBox, "BItem 2|CItem 3|DItem 4", "EItem 2")
  GUISetState()
  GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, WM_COMMAND)

  Local $sComboRead = ""

  ; Loop until the user exits.
  While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
      Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idButton_Close
        ExitLoop
      Case $idComboBox
        $sComboRead = GUICtrlRead($idComboBox)
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The combobox is currently displaying: " & $sComboRead, 0, $hGUI)
    EndSwitch
  WEnd
EndFunc   ;==>Example

Func WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam)
  Local $iIDFrom = _WinAPI_LoWord($iwParam), $iCode = _WinAPI_HiWord($iwParam)
  Local $sText, $sInd
  If $iIDFrom = $idComboBox Then
    If $iCode = $CBN_EDITCHANGE Then
      $sInd = _GUICtrlComboBox_GetEditText($idComboBox)
      For $i = 0 To _GUICtrlComboBox_GetCount($idComboBox) - 1
        _GUICtrlComboBox_GetLBText($idComboBox, $i, $sText)
        If StringInStr($sText, $sInd) Then
          _GUICtrlComboBox_SetCurSel($idComboBox, $i)
          ExitLoop
        EndIf
      Next
    EndIf
  EndIf
  Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc   ;==>WM_COMMAND

 

[Efo74]

Thank you very much you are my savior, just what I was looking for. Now I have to study your code to adapt it to my needs. Thanks again.

[Nine]

Glad you like it