Cosmetic Glitch when Replacing a Silver Style Combo Box by a String

As the title says, if you replace a Silver Style Combo Box by a String (same data type), things turn ugly:
Nothing of the sort happens with the other styles as can be seen above too.

Hi X
Yea I get the same behavior in 2012 and 2013. A workaround for this would be to replace the original control or indicator with a non-silver version of the control and then replace that control with the desired silver style control. This seems to work for me.
Paolo F.
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

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Silver Combo Box Display Style Bug

[LV2011, Windows XP]
There appears to be a small bug with the Silver-style Combo Box control when you right-click and select Visible Items->Display Style. For the string control a glyph appears properly, but for the combo box the glyph appears in the wrong place, and the colours are wrong. In fact, the glyph only appears properly if you click on it, or do something else to force a redraw of the control.
This combo box is a bit confusing, since it has no "Radix Shadow" part like the string control does, and in fact only the Silver-style combo box lets you display the "Display Type" glyph. The other styles of combo box have no "Display Type" feature in the "Visible Items" menu, but the "Display Style Visible" checkbox does appear on the "Appearance" tab of the Properties dialog box (though checking it has no effect, and it appears unchecked if you re-launch the dialog box".
I've attached a new version of the control which is close to fixing the bug, but the glyph region is 1 pixel skinnier than the string version. Copy this to your "..\vi.lib\silver_ctls\String" folder if you want it to replace the version in the palettes.
Jaegen
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
Combo Box NI_Silver.ctl ‏6 KB

Jaegen:
Good catch, there is now a Corrective Action Request filed for this issue. It is correct that this property is
not supported by the Combo Box found in the Modern Palette. However, this should at least be documented in the
"Display Style Visible" property documentation if this is case, which it is not.
Thanks for alerting us to this error and if you would like to follow the CAR, look for CAR# 312717 listed in
bug fix reports for later releases of LabVIEW.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need any more help with this issue.
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Sorry , I don't want more space in cell.I want a combo box in a cell.But when i am setting the combo box it is applying to whole column and in every row i am getting a combobox .But i want to have a combo box in one row and a textfield in another row in the same column.
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So far so good.
Now on the popup view I need to be able to assign contacts to the activity and I need to filter the choice of contacts based on location and group, so for example, when I open the contact combo box, I see only my volunteers from office 1, or only my staff
from office 2, etc. Is this best accomplished by cascading combo boxes? Or should I somehow use a parameter query? I have tried the cascading combo boxes but so far have not been able to get them to work.
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Hi,
>>
I need to filter the choice of contacts based on location and group
Is this best accomplished by cascading combo boxes?
I have tried the cascading combo boxes but so far have not been able to get them to work.
<<
In this case, I will suggest you using the Combo Box control which has the build-in support on cascading feature.
And what do you mean by “not been able to get them work”? I did a quick test and it worked as expected.
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Analyzer 6.5: Linking Table to a combo box

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According to the description, the AutoExpand feature provied by comboBox didn't work after you close the database.
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This actually worked great. Thank you!
The only issue I'm still having is the initial when-mouse-click action is bringing up a scrollbar and minimizing what you can view to one value inside the existing list item, but allowing you to scroll through the list displaying one item at a time (within the list item). If I click twice, the scrollbar disappears, but you still can't see the full list. If I click three times, it starts functioning the way I want it to on the initial click by displaying all values as a combo box list with no scrollbar (all values visible). Is there a behavior I'm overlooking that will force it to behave this way from the initial mouse click?
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I think I am doing something wrong, but, maybe someone can quickly enlighten me.
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I have a combo box with about 65 values. I want to feed these into a case structure (to select a range of settings to use later on)
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Attachments:
example2.vi ‏7 KB

Cosmetic Glitch when Replacing a Silver Style Combo Box by a String

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