COMBOBOX SELECT: different bahaviour

[Egbert Zijlema]

Hi guys,

Playing around with DDT's combo boxes stuff, I've discovered slightly different behaviour between the following calls for the same operation.

CONTROL SEND CBHNDL, 100, %CB_SETCURSEL, 0, 1
COMBOBOX SELECT CBHNDL, 100, 1

Both calls select the first element of a combobox-array. In other words: the first call is base zero based, the
second is base one based. I think, this is very confusing.



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[This message has been edited by Egbert Zijlema (edited August 06, 2001).]

[Lance Edmonds]

DDT COMBOBOX and LISTBOX items are always 1 based. This is the documented behavior and not likely to change as it would break a lot of existing code.

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[Egbert Zijlema]

I certainly do agree, Lance.
Base one is what Basic programmers are used to. And DDT is a part of a Basic compiler. So... it should be one. Nevertheless I expercienced the above mentioned difference.

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[Ian Cairns]

Hi Egbert,
Of course, you have to remember that COMBOBOX SELECT is specific to Comboboxes.
CONTROL SEND is generic to all controls. In order for the compiler to decide what
value to send, it would have to do extra work in determining control types, (which
could be changed on the fly!) Better just to let the user know that it sends the
exact message the user specified to the control!

regards,

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