1)detach the on changeEven
2)Change Text
3)re attach the on change event

On 1/25/07, Ross Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want to change the Text property of a ComboBox inside the OnChange
> event.  Setting it directly doesn't work presumeably because the
> OnChange event occurs before the change occurs rather than after.
>
> So I decided the best way to do this would be to send the WM_SETTEXT
> message using PostMessage with a global variable storing the text...
>
> PostMessage(ComboBox1.Handle,WM_SETTEXT,0,Integer(pChar(GlobalString)));
>
> But this doesn't work either.  I read somewhere that Windows doesn't
> allow PostMessage to work with string pointers because it's likely the
> string address on the stack is temporary and will not exist after
> PostMessage has been sent.  This may be correct in most cases but with a
> global string, the address of the string will be constant, so it would
> work.
>
> SendMessage works with string pointers, but SendMessage waits until the
> message has been delivered before the procedure continues execution, so
> that defeats my purpose.
>
> Is there anyway to fool Windows into sending a WM_SETTEXT message
> without waiting.  Or do I have to muck about with a timer or send my own
> user message to get this to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Ross.
>
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