tab and _GUICtrlComboBoxEx_

[JoGa]

Hi,

a tabcontrol holds 2 tabs, the first containing a ComboBoxEx, the second an edit control.

When activating tab2 and moving the mouse inside the edit control, the ComboBoxEx from tab1 shows.

What am I doing wrong?

The attached example show the issue.

tab.au3

[Yashied]

#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiTab.au3>
#include <GuiComboBoxEx.au3>

$gui = GUICreate("Tab", 400, 200)

$tab = GUICtrlCreateTab(10, 10, 380, 180)

$t1 = GUICtrlCreateTabItem("t1")
$c1 = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 20, 40, 300, 300)
$b1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("button", 20, 80, 60, 22)

$t2 = GUICtrlCreateTabItem("t2")
$e1 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 20, 40, 300, 120, 0, 0)

GUICtrlCreateTabItem("")

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

[Melba23]

JoGa,

This topic will help explain. Basically (in hobbyist coder terms ) the _GUICtrlComboBoxEx UDF creates another window rather than a control so AutoIt treats it differently.

There are often problems when combining the UDFs with the normal built-in commands - nothing to be done about it, just learn the workarounds!

M23

Edit: Why use the UDF anyway - what is wrong with the built-in GUICtrlCreateCombo which does not have this problem?

Edited March 28, 2010 by Melba23

[JoGa]

JoGa,

This topic will help explain. Basically (in hobbyist coder terms ) the _GUICtrlComboBoxEx UDF creates another window rather than a control so AutoIt treats it differently.

There are often problems when combining the UDFs with the normal built-in commands - nothing to be done about it, just learn the workarounds!

M23

Edit: Why use the UDF anyway - what is wrong with the built-in GUICtrlCreateCombo which does not have this problem?

Thanks, your link helped solving the issue.

I'm using _GUICtrlComboBoxEx because I use the _GUICtrlComboBoxEx_SetImageList() and _GUICtrlComboBoxEx_AddString() function.