Chris, sorry not very helpful, but I gave up a while ago. There was just too much interference from windows. I ended up popping a grid at the right place to simulate a combobox. It was much easier to get that working. :-) On 8 Dec 98 at 6:38, Chris Crowe wrote: > Another question about placing control's over a grid. > > I have a small problem. > > I want to have multiple edit controls and combo box controls for each column > in a grid, one per row. The control will just become visible when the > underlying column is selected. > > Overriding the paint event makes the border dissapear on the combo's which > means the actual text editing rectangle starts about 3 pixels down and to > the right of the top left edge of the combo. > > I want my edit controls to also edit text at this offset. The way I though > was using the EM_SETRECT message which allows me to control where the actual > editing rectangle is for the edit control. > > The edit control must have the ES_MULTILINE flag set in the Params section > of CreateParams for the EM_SETRECT message to work. > > procedure TAdrockVisualFieldEdit.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams); > begin > inherited CreateParams(Params); > Params.Style := Params.Style or ES_MULTILINE or WS_CLIPCHILDREN; > end; > > Now the problem, when I am on the edit control and move to a cell with the > combo I get a combo with no cursor, and I can not type in to the control. If > I press tab I get the cursor, and am able to enter text. This also only > occurs when I am navigating using the UP and Down Arrow Keys. Using the > mouse works fine. > > If I do not have the ES_MULTILINE flag the problem does not show up at all, > and I get a cursor every time on each field without a problem. > > But then without the ES_MULTILINE flag I can not move the actual editing > rectangle of the edit control to the position I want. > > Any ideas what is happening here? > > Chris > > > > -- 8< -- 8< -- [ Original Message End ] -- >8 -- >8 -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > Rohit ====================================================================== CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New Zealand PH (649) 489-2280 FX (649) 489-2290 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
