Combo Box Size

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Guest

is it possible to adjust the size of the caret (drop down arrow), in a combo box to match the field size. I have a combo box on a touchscreen with a font size of 18 and the drop down arrow is very small (hard to touch). I would rather not have to use the mouse or F4 to drop list. Also have same type of problem with scroll bars. Thanks for the help
 
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Dirk Goldgar

Alex said:
is it possible to adjust the size of the caret (drop down arrow), in
a combo box to match the field size. I have a combo box on a
touchscreen with a font size of 18 and the drop down arrow is very
small (hard to touch). I would rather not have to use the mouse or F4
to drop list. Also have same type of problem with scroll bars. Thanks
for the help

I'm afraid I can't help much. My first thought was to put a big
command button on top of the little dropdown button, with a caption in a
Wingdings font that would look like the down-arrow, and code to set
focus to the combo box and call its Dropdown method. Unfortunately,
whenever the combo box gets the focus it comes to the front, with its
own original dropdown button sitting on top of the big button -- not
pretty. You could, of course, just put a big button off to the side,
accepting the fact that you have two buttons, your own and the combo's,
to do the same thing. Or you could forget the extra button and use code
in the combo's DblClick event to drop it down.
 
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Terry Kreft

.... or use a textbox with a command button next to it, on clicking the
command button show a list box.


Terry
 
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fredg

is it possible to adjust the size of the caret (drop down arrow), in a combo box to match the field size. I have a combo box on a touchscreen with a font size of 18 and the drop down arrow is very small (hard to touch). I would rather not have to use the mouse or F4 to drop list. Also have same type of problem with scroll bars. Thanks for the help

Can you place this code in the combo box Enter event:

Me![ComboName.Dropdown

Tabbing into or clicking in the field will cause the drop down to
occur without any need to find the arrow.
 

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