How do I access ComboBox.SelectedText from another thread?

Paulers wrote:

Hello all,

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to access the
selected text in a combobox from another thread. I can get it working
with a textbox but it does not with a combobox. Could someone be so
kind as to show me an example of how this is accomplished? Many thanks
in advance.

So, what are you doing with the textbox? Are you invoking a method to
return the selected text, or are you trying to access directly? Can
you be a little more specific about what doesn't work? A short code
snip-it would be helpful.

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Tom Shelton

Tom,

I am also very curious about that code, how to set a combobox with data that
is assynchroon processed and still accoording the users interface actions.

I realy hope to see that code.

I assume that you asks this more polite then I mostly do as it is about
this, however have that same feeling and that we then probably come with the
same answers.

:-)

Cor

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Paulers wrote:

>Hello all,

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to access the
selected text in a combobox from another thread. I can get it working
with a textbox but it does not with a combobox. Could someone be so
kind as to show me an example of how this is accomplished? Many thanks
in advance.

So, what are you doing with the textbox? Are you invoking a method to
return the selected text, or are you trying to access directly? Can
you be a little more specific about what doesn't work? A short code
snip-it would be helpful.

--
Tom Shelton

Paulers,

The problem is that in this kind of processing you can only keep one thing
open.
That is the close box. All other things have to wait until the processing is
done (most of the time is this not even recognisable by this kind of
database processing). It goes that fast that as soon as the user has reached
the point he want to select, then the processing is already done.

What is in your case what the user can do in between of those processes?

(I know that the sample is often used, however in my idea more to show it
then that it has any practical benefit).

It is something else of course when you are loading a very large solution,
however in many cases you have as well to wait until it is complete ready,
you cannot stop that then only with the taskmanager. A sample of that is
Visual Studio. The price that is paid in processing time in normal
situations is probably to high.

In other words don't expect that multi threading is a solution for
everything it is in the oposite, there are very few situations were you can
use it. (To be honest in data processing I don't know one).

Cor