Can a combo box be made to drop down and display its list when you "mouse over" the box.

I don't see an event for this. There is obviously and event that causes the control tip to to appear.

This is not always desirable but I have an instance when this would be nice.

thanks for tips

Ken

In the MOUSEMOVE event of the combobox, put:

comboboxname.Dropdown

Just a second note that the ControlTip appearance is controlled by a default Access behaviour; there is no trappable event for that.

hmmmmm

So, I am not loosing it.

I have no mouse over event!!!!!!

That's a pretty basic event but it is not there!!

Ken

Peter

I replied befor your reply.

I will try


tnx
Ken

Peter

Please nobody laugh.

I got an error saying the control did not have focus so I added a line to setfocus, before dropdown.

Cool.

Now if I don't want to select a value, I would like the list to close and maintain null.

What is the opposite to dropdown and what event would I use.

Why is the simple stuff like this?

Ken

OK I got it

I used the mouse move event on the form to setfocus to some other control. That closed the list after I left the combobox.

Thanks

Ken

Sorry, was away from my desk for a bit. Glad you got it working!