dropdown outside panel

[Peter Proost]

Hi I have made my own control with a dropdown functionality like a combobox
and it works just great, but I've got one problem remaining. If you put a
combobox on a panel and press the little arrow the dropdown part enlarges
outside the bounds of the panel. How can I achieve this for my own
usercontrol? My usercontrol is a textbox with on it's right side a button
and if you click the button a datagrid becomes visible below the textbox,
but I can't find out how to draw the datagrid outside the bounds of the
panel

Thanks in advance

Greetz Peter

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

The panel of a combobox dropdown is a separate window that isn't a child of
the combobox parent. I suggest that you need to redesign your control to use
a NativeWindow based implementation for the dropdown panel.

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"Peter Proost" <pp*****@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi I have made my own control with a dropdown functionality like a
combobox
and it works just great, but I've got one problem remaining. If you put a
combobox on a panel and press the little arrow the dropdown part enlarges
outside the bounds of the panel. How can I achieve this for my own
usercontrol? My usercontrol is a textbox with on it's right side a button
and if you click the button a datagrid becomes visible below the textbox,
but I can't find out how to draw the datagrid outside the bounds of the
panel

Thanks in advance

Greetz Peter

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Peter Proost" <pp*****@nospam.hotmail.com> schrieb:

Hi I have made my own control with a dropdown functionality like a
combobox
and it works just great, but I've got one problem remaining. If you put a
combobox on a panel and press the little arrow the dropdown part enlarges
outside the bounds of the panel. How can I achieve this for my own
usercontrol?

Use .NET Forms as Popup Windows
<URL:http://vbaccelerator.com/article.asp?id=13309>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Peter Proost]

Thanks for the tips Bob and Herfried they are very helpful

Greetz Peter

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"Peter Proost" <pp*****@nospam.hotmail.com> schrieb:

Hi I have made my own control with a dropdown functionality like a
combobox
and it works just great, but I've got one problem remaining. If you put a combobox on a panel and press the little arrow the dropdown part enlarges outside the bounds of the panel. How can I achieve this for my own
usercontrol?

Use .NET Forms as Popup Windows
<URL:http://vbaccelerator.com/article.asp?id=13309>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>