> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a (freeware preferable) combo box that can support
> multiple columns? I'm not sure if such an animal exists, but I have a
> client who wants to be able to select a fault from a standard drop
> down combo list of them, as well as a priority for that fault, listed
> in a separate column so that it looks like:
>
John,
You could use a regular combo box and set the OwnerDraw
property to true. On the OnDrawItem event parse out the contents
of the item and draw it in two columns.
I do this all the time, for an example within a combo box I display
the city and postal code for a given location in two columns.
Eg.
procedure TLocDetForm.SelectedLocationsBoxDrawItem(Control:
TWinControl;
Index: Integer; Rect: TRect; State: TOwnerDrawState);
var
Ctrl: TComboBox;
iCol2: integer;
begin
iCol2:=45; // or whatever you want column 2 to start at
Ctrl:=(Control as TComboBox);
with Ctrl.Canvas do
begin
TextRect(Rect,4,Rect.Top,GetField(#9,Ctrl.Items[Index],1));
Rect.Left:=Rect.Left+iCol2;
TextRect(Rect,Rect.Left,Rect.Top,GetField(#9,Ctrl.Items[Index],2));
end;
end;
The function GetField() above parses out the tab delimeted combo
box item and returns a string corresponding to the given field
number.