hi all

this is my first post in this forum, hopefully some1 will be able to help me
im relatively new to MFC

i have the following problem:

i created a dialog driven application.
i put a Clistctrl and made 2 columns in it.
i also created a combo box control.

now, in the dilaog file i overwrote the OnNMClickProperties function to get the clicks in the list ctrl, in the function when i recgonize a click on the fields that i want to show the combobox, i did the following things:

i got the rectangle of the 2nd field in the listbox and move the combo box to that location and showed it, normally the combo box is hidden :

PropertiesCombo.MoveWindow(m_RectSelected);
PropertiesCombo.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

propetiescombo is the combo box itself and m_rectselected is the new rectangle for it.

now in the application the combobox is shown where i want it to, but when i click on the combo box, the combo box doesnt open its dropdown menu.

can any one please help me?, im at my wit's end, tried everything i can think of but nothing helps.

if any more info is nedded please let me know and ill post it as soon as I can.

hi all

just wanted to day i found the answer

to solve the problem you have to do the following after creating the list and combo box :

PropertiesCombo.SetParent(&PropertiesList);

this line of code will make sure that it will behave as i described in the first post