VB Question

[garyd1234]

Hi,
You know how in VBA when you make a combo box that it automatically has type ahead ( actually not sure what it is called). I mean when you give the combo box a list of items you can just type and each letter you type it brings up something it recognizes in the box?
How do I do that in Visual Basic (non-Access) because it doesn't do it there automatically and I can't find a property to set. Can you direct me to a site that might have code to put behind the combo box that would do that?
Thanks.

 

[CT Witter]

The property is called Auto Expand Boolean (Yes/No)- Expand Text if leading characters match one of the listed choices.

VB should have this as a property.

HTH,
Vetter

 

[garyd1234]

I don't have Auto Expand. Is it one some library that I need to turn on. It is not a property for my combo box. The combo box is loaded from a flat file on form load by a little routine I wrote. That is where it gets its contents. But it won't do auto complete when I type in it. I saw some very complicated routines out there but can't get them to work. Some use .find and .findfirst. I can't use those because I don't have some library turned on and I can't figure out which one.