autosize Combobox in Visual Studio

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I am beginner in C++, I am using Visual Studio and I would like to create combo boxes which will have very small with, but if I will click on them they will expand so all items can be seen. I found a topic here on "autosize" but that was .NET and I do not want to be depended on .NET framework. So can you show me how to do it? Lets start with combobox containing these items: "all", "barracks","blacksmith","university","monastery", so I would set the initial width to 23px, so the first item "all" will be selected and visible.

Posted 5-Jul-15 6:47am

John Boe

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2015-07-05T07:13:00

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you got to do it on your own. C++ hasnt the comfort of .NET but allows to implement much things. You must implement message handler for some the the Control Messages and some Control Notifications.

Looks like here is an interesting article about Custom Comboboxes.