Creating an invisible column in a combobox in eVB

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.

 

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:

Code:

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.