Creating an invisible column in a combobox in eVB

[irosen516]

Hi there. I'm remembering back to my days working with Access and remember being able to create a combobox with two columns where I could have one column be invisible and then stored that value in a database, etc. I would like to do the same thing in eVB. Does anyone know if there is a way to do that? I found something about CBS_EX_CONSTSTRINGDATA, but can't find too much information about it or how to use it. Thanks.

 

[TimCottee]

The eVB combo box like the VB combo box doesn't allow multiple columns like the MS Forms combo box in Access. It does have an ItemData property for each item:

Private Sub Combo1_Click()
    MSgbox Combo1.ItemData(Combo1.ListIndex)
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    For i = 1 To 10
        Combo1.AddItem "Item " & CStr(i)
        Combo1.ItemData(Combo1.NewIndex) = 100 * i
    Next
End Sub

Unfortunately you can only use it to store values of the Long datatype and not strings but this could be used as a pointer to an associated array of other elements.