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oexel · Jan 16, 2005, 06:37 AM

Hi everyone, I am in the midst of writing an application and have come accross a peculiar problem that should be quite simple to solve. I need to set the current selection of a ComboBox from my application. For example, i may have 20 items the user may choose from, but i want to set the default location in the list to display when clicked not always at the start of the list. Any ideas how to do this? I cant find any tags to set this index value.

Thanx

Angus_D · Jan 16, 2005, 10:09 AM

Did you try looking at the documentation?

oexel · Jan 16, 2005, 06:07 PM

thank you for that. I am a Carbon developer however. Is there a similar function call for in the Carbon APIs?

Angus_D · Jan 17, 2005, 04:41 AM

No idea. Look yourself.

oexel · Jan 17, 2005, 06:28 AM

sadly, i did. I have read every control manager doc I could find and I even went through all the relevant header files. Looks like i'm gonna have to write some ObjC wrappers *thumbs down*. Thanx anyway Angus

Angus_D · Jan 17, 2005, 07:24 AM

You didn't originally state that you were using HIComboBox... Be clearer in your questioning!

Basically I think the consensus is that HIComboBox is a bit pants. Your only real option is to file enhancement requests using Apple's Bug Reporter.

BTW note that you can't mix and match NSViews and HIViews.