Question

I am currently trying to add to my VB6 combobox using the AddItem method. This works, however, I want to display text in the drop down but I need to pass the ID of that text.

Is there a way to accomplish this by using the AddItem method?

Answer 1

As the ID was not numeric I didn’t use the solution above.

I had to create a type that had a “desc” and an “cod” and then create an array of that type.

I then used the ListIndex of the drop down (populated by the array) to get the element value which contained the id.

Private Type T_arrType
    cod As String
    dsc As String
End Type


dim x as integer
x = cbo.listIndex
msgbox(strArr(x).cod)
msgbox(strArr(x).dsc)