From reading this list it seems I'm wasn't the only Win32::GUI user
befuddled by droplist style Combobox control not catching mouse clicks and
other events. I spent way too much time yesterday RTFM, digging for a
solution, and trying to get it to work but finally today stumbled into the
solution:
If you create a Window and Combobox control like so:
$Window = new Win32::GUI::Window( ... options ... );
$Window->AddCombobox( ... options .... );
...and if your main window is processing messages like so:
$Window->Dialog();
...then it seems that not all messages (such as mouse clicks) are filtered
down to the Combobox control (thus not allowing droplist items to be
selected with mouse clicks) unless you change the above statement to this:
GUI::Dialog();
...or I suppose Win32::GUI::Dialog() would work just the same, and presto,
now you can mouse click on items in the Combobox droplist. Seems to affect
which messages are being passed down to the Combobox control via its parent
window.
I don't know if this is a Win32::GUI::Combobox bug or what but anyhow hope
this hint is useful to other users running into similar issues.
-Kurt
