elver
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Combo box issue under windows 2000

Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:46 am

Hi,

I have a strange behaviour with combo boxes running my installer under windows 2000: although there are present, the values are not displayed by pressing the arrow button of the box. I can get them only using the keyboard up and down keys. The same installer works fine under XP.

Thanks

Cosmin
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Re: Combo box issue under windows 2000

Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:31 am

Hi,

Most likely the combo box is not large enough to show the values. Please try this:
- go to the "Dialogs" page
- select the dialog which contains the combo boxes
- select a combo box
- in the Properties pane set the Height to 270
- do the same for the rest of the combo boxes

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Cosmin
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elver
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Re: Combo box issue under windows 2000

Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:35 pm

Hi Cosmin,

Simple and efficient! Just for curiosity, why this behaviour under 2000 and not under other OS?

Regards
Laurent

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Re: Combo box issue under windows 2000

Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:11 pm

Hi Laurent,

This behavior is caused by a bug which has been fixed in Windows XP. Note that this problem may also be encountered on Windows 98 if the height of the combo box is not high enough.

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Cosmin
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