Question

I need to iterate through the items (strings) in a CComboBox to check which string is the longest. How can I get each item in the list?

Answer 1

Try the GetLBTextLen() function

Here’s an example from MSDN:

// Dump all of the items in the combo box.    CString str, str2;    int n;    for (int i=0;i < pmyComboBox->GetCount();i++)    {       n = pmyComboBox->GetLBTextLen( i );       pmyComboBox->GetLBText( i, str.GetBuffer(n) );       str.ReleaseBuffer();        str2.Format(_T('item %d: %s\r\n'), i, str.GetBuffer(0));       afxDump << str2;    }