How to stop a Combobox from displaying sorted strings

[Tim Lakinir]

I coded my dialog with the below code

LOCAL  NBarArr()  AS STRING
  REDIM NBarArr(1 TO 8)
    ARRAY ASSIGN NBarArr() = "   4", "   6", "   8",_
          "   10" , "   12" , "   14","   16" , "  18"  

​  CONTROL ADD LABEL, hDlg, %ID_LabNBar , "Number of Bars "  , 60, 225 , 115 , 18
      CONTROL ADD COMBOBOX, hDlg, %ID_CmbNBar, NBarArr(), 150,225 , 60,20
    ​

but on the screen, the combobox shows sorted




Which is incorrect as I need the combobox to display in the order of 4 --> 6 ---> 8 --> 10 --> 12 .......

How to I get it display in the order the array was assigned?

[Tim Lakinir]

Found that the default combobox's style is %CBS_SORT

Is there a style to set the combobox to display unsorted and to present elements in the same order as it was assigned ?

[Frank Rogers]

I think you answered your own question... don't include %CBS_SORT.

The default combo box style comprises %CBS_DROPDOWN, %CBS_SORT, and %WS_TABSTOP

[Frank Rogers]

This should work...

CONTROL ADD COMBOBOX, hDlg, %ID_CmbNBar, NBarArr(), 150,225 , 60,20, %CBS_DROPDOWN OR %WS_TABSTOP

[Stuart McLachlan]

Found that the default combobox's style is %CBS_SORT

Is there a style to set the combobox to display unsorted and to present elements in the same order as it was assigned ?

Just set the styles yourself without the %CB_SORT.

Try something like %CBS_DROPDOWNLIST OR %WS_TABSTOP

[Tim Lakinir]

Thank you Frank and Stuart, I just specified in the combobox style straightaway and it works!

 CONTROL ADD LABEL, hbDlg, %ID_LabNBar , "Number of Bars "  , 60, 245 , 115 , 18
      CONTROL ADD COMBOBOX, hbDlg, %ID_CmbNBar, NBarArr(), 150,245 , 60,20 ,_
        %CBS_DROPDOWN OR %WS_TABSTOP
      COMBOBOX SELECT hbDlg, %ID_CmbNBar, 1    ​

[Stuart McLachlan]

Found that the default combobox's style is %CBS_SORT

Is there a style to set the combobox to display unsorted and to present elements in the same order as it was assigned ?

Note that "default" style in PB is just a common set of styles that Bob decided to implement in DDT by default to make it quicker and simpler to create objects most of the time, including %CB_SORT for comboboxes. (i.e. in many cases, you don't need to specify any styles when you add a dialog or control).

As soon as you want any behaviour other than the DDT default, you set all of the styles you want the object to have, just as you would when using the API directly to create them.

[Dale Yarker]

In Help the default styles are shown in bold. To not use a style (%CBS_SORT in this case) but keep the rest of the defaults, OR in the others shown in bold.

Cheers,