ListSearch

Description

Short story: "Type-o-matic" searches for ordinary and combo listboxes.

Longer description from old site: click here.

To be edited...

Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

Subclassing?, Programming Techniques, VBPJ, January 1996

Move Data With Memory-Mapped Files, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, October 1999

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function

CCboSrch.cls user32
GetAsyncKeyState
SendMessage

CLstSrch.cls user
user32 SendMessage
SendMessage

SrchList.frm kernel

kernel32
GetSystemDirectory
GetWindowsDirectory
GetSystemDirectory
GetWindowsDirectory

Don't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.

Module	Library	Function
CCboSrch.cls	user32	GetAsyncKeyState SendMessage
CLstSrch.cls	user user32	SendMessage SendMessage
SrchList.frm	kernel kernel32	GetSystemDirectory GetWindowsDirectory GetSystemDirectory GetWindowsDirectory

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