jsComboBoxEx Overview

Introducing the jsComboBoxEx custom class for use with dBASE.

jsComboBoxEx is a custom class which is written almost entirely in dBL code and based on the PaintBox standard dBL class. The dBL code in the jsComboBoxEx class surfaces the highly stable and widely used Windows ComboBoxEx window class functionality.

If you've used Windows Explorer or other applications using ComboBoxEx, then you already know what ComboBoxEx functionality is all about. The ComboBoxEx window class is similar to the stock ComboBox class but also supports the display of optional images with the item text. The same basic ComboBoxEx technology is used in all sorts of applications requiring simple user-interfaces for list selections with the list represented by a series of text labels and optional images. Now, almost all of the ComboBoxEx functionality can be easily integrated directly into any dBL application with jsComboBoxEx and you have full control of the functionality which the users have access to.

jsComboBoxEx can be used for many purposes:

jsComboBoxEx is a very stable item list interface. Almost all of the standard ComboBoxEx window class functionality is now available to you through dBL code.
jsComboBoxEx supports the use of image lists for display of item images using the companion jsImageList dBL class. With the companion jsImageList dBL class, you can build image lists dynamically from single bitmaps or icons, or use actual image list style bitmaps. Selection images and image overlays are also supported.
jsComboBoxEx supports list item indentation. This allows the dropdown list items to be displayed as a heirarchical tree list similar to the way items are displayed in the stock TreeView class.
jsComboBoxEx provides a rich set of features, not only for display and user selection of list items, but also for dBL source-level control, manipulation, ordering, and querying of item lists. You can leverage the power, functionality, and ease of jsComboBoxEx as a tool to help open the door to more sophisticated and more modern applications. Or add this new functionality to update existing applications.
jsComboBoxEx is *not* an ActiveX component, so there are no complicated and time-consuming application deployment, ActiveX system registration, or ActiveX licensing issues to contend with. Simply deploy the jsComboBoxEx and companion compiled dBL object files the same as you deploy the rest of the object files for your application, either in the application EXE or using DEO. And deploy the small jsUtils.dll file as you would any other dll required by your application. The best place for the dll is in the same folder path where the application EXE is located. Now jsComboBoxEx is ready to work for you. It really is that simple.

For those of you who don't believe it, YES dBASE can do some rather amazing things. And now with jsComboBoxEx, dBASE becomes even more powerful.