Cannot change the height of a combo box in the VS Dialog Editor

Question

Any combo box I create seems to be stuck at 12 dialog units in height. Microsoft's guidelines for spacing and sizing of controls in dialog boxes state that a combo box should be 14 dialog units high.

I have even tried editing the resource file in notepad and recompiling in Visual Studio without opening the resource editor - but the combo boxes are still the wrong size!

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can get the combo components HWNDs and sizes with WTL::CComboBox::GetComboBoxInfo(), for instance in your OnInitDialog():

COMBOBOXINFO cbi = {sizeof COMBOBOXINFO}; 
CComboBox(GetDlgItem(ID_MYCOMBO)).GetComboBoxInfo(&cbi);
CRect rComboEdit = cbi.rcItem;
// adjust rComboEdit to your needs
CEdit(cbi.hwndItem).MoveWindow(rComboEdit);

cheers, AR