how can I get a combobox in a datagridview to show the dropdown list without clicking it twice. First click to select the control, second click to dropdown.

I've seen the use of:

SendKeys.Send("{F4}");

But this is not wat I want. I'm developing software for business clients, who might use antivirus software or antispyware. These will respond to the use of sendkey as keyboard monitoring software (spyware). So I have to find an other way to accomplish this.

Does anyone know how?

Hi,

I'm not familair with the datagridview or dggridviewcolumn, but maybe you can check the onmousedown event and set the drowpdown property

eg

Private Sub comboMousedown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Hostedcombo.MouseDown

if Hostedcombo.DroppedDown = false then  Hostedcombo.DroppedDown= true

End Sub

Remco

Sorry, but I'm not familiar with VB, I chose for C#. Since I don't understand the code you wrote, I can't recreate it in C#.

Thanks

C# code is verry simular, but the general idea is :

have a reference to the hosted combobox

Catch the mousedown event with a eventhandler, in the eventhandler check if the combobox is dropped down if it's not dropped down then then drop it down in code.

but like a said i'm not familiair with the dgvieuw so it might not be possible, maybe somebody els can chime in.

Remco