{"id":162,"date":"2010-03-30T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/?p=162"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:05","slug":"useful-function-to-setup-combo-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/combo-box\/useful-function-to-setup-combo-boxes","title":{"rendered":"Useful function to setup combo boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Function<\/h4>\n<pre><code>\r\n\/\/*************************************\r\n\/\/*************************************\r\n\/\/********** SETUP COMBO BOX **********\r\n\/\/*************************************\r\n\/\/*************************************\r\nprivate: void SetupComboBox (System::Windows::Forms::ComboBox ^TargetComboBox, int DefaultItem, array<String^> ^Items)\r\n{\r\n\r\n\ttry\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tTargetComboBox->BeginUpdate();\r\n\t\tTargetComboBox->SelectedIndex = -1;\r\n\t\tTargetComboBox->Items->Clear();\t\t\/\/Remove any existing items\r\n\r\n\t\tfor each (String ^ItemString in Items)\r\n\t\t\tTargetComboBox->Items->Add(ItemString);\r\n\r\n\t\tTargetComboBox->SelectedIndex = DefaultItem;\t\/\/Select default item\r\n\t}\r\n\tcatch (Exception ^)\r\n\t{\r\n\t}\r\n\tfinally\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tTargetComboBox->EndUpdate();\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>Calling It<\/h4>\n<pre><code>\r\n\tSetupComboBox(cmbDay, -1, (gcnew array<String^> {\"Monday\", \"Tuesday\", \"Wednesday\", \"Thursday\", \"Friday\", \"Saturday\", \"Sunday\"}));\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Function \/\/************************************* \/\/************************************* \/\/********** SETUP COMBO BOX ********** \/\/************************************* \/\/************************************* private: void SetupComboBox (System::Windows::Forms::ComboBox ^TargetComboBox, int DefaultItem, array ^Items) { try { TargetComboBox->BeginUpdate(); TargetComboBox->SelectedIndex = -1; TargetComboBox->Items->Clear(); \/\/Remove any existing items for each (String ^ItemString in Items) TargetComboBox->Items->Add(ItemString); TargetComboBox->SelectedIndex = DefaultItem; \/\/Select default item } catch (Exception ^) { } finally { TargetComboBox->EndUpdate(); } [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combo-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}