vb.net controls: I was delighted to find Herfried K. Wagner's code to set a combobox's
passwordchar at
http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=comboboxpasswordchar&lang=en.

It looked like the answer to my problem - a combobox where I (sometimes)
needed to display a password.

Sadly, when I implemented the code, the combobox still displayed text.

I'm rather a novice programmer when it comes to API calls like SendMessage -
is there something obvious I might be missing? (e.g. will this only work
when the control is being created?)
I realize I haven't given you much to go on here -
I'd gladly supply more information, if only I knew what would help.
Here are a few items which may be relevant:
I'm coding in VB.NET v.1.1.
The combobox's DropDownStyle is set to Simple before I call this code.

TIA
- Turtle

"Turtle" <macdermott@nowhere.com> schrieb:
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I assume the code will only work if 'DropDownStyle' is set to
'DropDownList'.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Vielen Dank, Herr Wagner!

That does seem to be the problem.
I'd really like, however, to be able to use a combobox with Simple drop-down
style (in essence, a combobox which looks just like a textbox) with a
password character. Is there no hope?


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Try using SendMessage(GetWindow(GetWindow(ComboBox.Handle, GW_CHILD),
GW_HWNDNEXT), EM_SETPASSWORDCHAR, AscW(PasswordChar), 0) in function
SetComboBoxPasswordChar to get Edit part of the combobox. Otherwise you
get the ListBox part of the combobox.

Jan Erik Karlsen
Senior Systems Engineer
Visma Software ASA
Norway