VB6: combo box style 2. Text property behaviour

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One of our VB6 project form is having a combo box. It's style is set to 2(Drop-down List Box).

When style is set to 2, its Text property becomes read-only. We cannot assign value to it.

But in our project some one has written code to assign string to Text property, and is working fine.

combobox1.Text = "Something" 'working

If i create a same kind of combo box with same properties, i am not able to assign string to text property. I am getting error runtime error 383 : text property is read-only

combobox2.Text = "Something" 'Not working

Can anyone help me understanding what i am missing

What I have tried:

I tried adding same control with same properties set to my new control as that of old one.

Posted 19-Sep-16 11:40am

yash35

Updated 21-Sep-16 2:03am

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2016-09-21T02:03:00

With VB6 combo boxes set to 'Drop-down List Box' you can "assign" a value to the Text property if the combobox list of items contains exactly that text. It is actually the equivalent of programmatically selecting an existing entry.

If it is not working for your combobox2 then you have not yet added the text "Something" to that combobox OR the code is running before the list is fully populated (e.g. in a Form load event).

Note the "exactly" ... if an existing item text begins with "Something" but is followed by other characters (including spaces) then it will not work. It is also case sensitive.