Thanks for the reply. Let me explain what I am trying to accomplish.
I have a combo box with a property containing a list of Industry Names. Things
like Retail Services, Auto Repair and such. As the user types, I want to
autofill the text with the first choice in that list that matches what the user
typed, then select the remaining text after it, so that typing replaces the
text after the insertion point. That part works fine.
But what happens when the user backspaces? Well it just fills in the remainder
of the entry and selects after the insertion point like it normally does. I
want the user to be able to delete what is there. Easy enough, I just put empty
into the selectedText. But what if there *is* no selected text?? The
selectedText is empty, the selected chunk is a description of the first line of
the text. So it will delete the whole contents if I use that.
Now if the selected chunk behaved in a combo box the way it does in a field, I
could parse that and delete the character of the label prior to the insertion
point. But it doesn’t, and no commands or functions I’ve found do.
I did find a workaround though. The following seems to work properly. It’s a
kludge in the finest tradition of epic kludges, but it works.
on rawKeyDown pKeyCode
if pKeyCode = 65288 then
lock messages
if the selection is empty then
type numToChar(pKeyCode)
exit to top
end if
end if
pass rawKeyDown
end rawKeyDown
on textChanged
if the label of me is empty then
set the text of me to the options of me
exit textChanged
end if
put the label of me into theValue
put length(theValue) into theLength
put the Options of me into theOptions
filter theOptions with theValue & "*"
if theOptions is not empty then
set the text of me to theOptions
if the text of me is among the lines of theOptions then
-- set the label of me to line 1 of theOptions
select char theLength +1 to -1 of me
end if
end if
-- focus on me
pass textChanged
end textChanged
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