by Bader Mubarak (2 Submissions)
Category: Miscellaneous
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Wed 8th March 2000
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Do you want to Search in ComboBox or ListBox as soon as you type in TextBox, ONLY 1 API Call and 2 Lines of code,very easy and very
VBcoders
'add a textbox(text1),a listbox(list1) and a combobox(combo1)then add then following:
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As Any) As Long
Const LB_FINDSTRING = &H18F
Const CB_FINDSTRING = &H14C
Private Sub Form_Load()
'Add some items to the listbox
With List1
.AddItem "Computer"
.AddItem "Screen"
.AddItem "Modem"
.AddItem "Printer"
.AddItem "Scanner"
.AddItem "Sound Blaster"
.AddItem "Keyboard"
.AddItem "CD-Rom"
.AddItem "Mouse"
End With
With Combo1
.AddItem "Computer"
.AddItem "Screen"
.AddItem "Modem"
.AddItem "Printer"
.AddItem "Scanner"
.AddItem "Sound Blaster"
.AddItem "Keyboard"
.AddItem "CD-Rom"
.AddItem "Mouse"
End With
Text1.Text = ""
End Sub
Private Sub Text1_Change()
'Retrieve the item's listindex
List1.ListIndex = SendMessage(List1.hwnd, LB_FINDSTRING, -1, ByVal CStr(Text1.Text))
Combo1.ListIndex = SendMessage(Combo1.hwnd, CB_FINDSTRING, -1, ByVal CStr(Text1.Text))
End Sub
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