Hide items in a combo box

[creek]

Hi,
is it possible to hide items in a combo box in Delphi 2006? I have a combo
box with 4 items and I would like to hide/show 2 of them at run-time. What
I really want is to preserve the items' indices (from 0 to 3) through all
the program execution.

Thanks,
Bye.

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[Wayne Niddery (TeamB)]

"creek" <creek...@yahoo.it> wrote in message
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> is it possible to hide items in a combo box in Delphi 2006? I have a combo
> box with 4 items and I would like to hide/show 2 of them at run-time. What
> I really want is to preserve the items' indices (from 0 to 3) through all
> the program execution.

That functionality is not available in a combobox (which is a Windows
control).

However, you can easily work around the index issue: rather than depending
on the Combobox's ItemIndex, store your own index in the Objects property of
each item, or alternatively (if you need the Objects property for something
else), keep the complete list of items in a separate StringList and then
look up the selected item in that list to get its index.

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Wayne Niddery - Winwright, Inc. (www.winwright.ca)