Hey all,
    I have created an AutoComplete ComboBox that is working beautifully, a user inputs text a string that is similar to their text is returned etc.

Well, my boss has informed me that he wants the list of items to change accordingly to what is keyed into the Combo Box so if a user inputs an 'F' the list will resize to only items containing F.

This is my problem. I can resize the list based upon what is keyed into the combo box BUT i call [combobox].items.clear(); then repopulate the list with the subset of data.

After calling [combobox].items.clear(); my autocomplete methods stop working because all of my calls to FindString, FindExactString, etc return 0 and -1, respectively.

This obviously has to do with me resizing the list but is there any way around it?

I have used [combobox].items.add as well as DataBindings to add items to the list in an attempt to circumvent my problem, but to no avail!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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Ok, this actually turned out to be much simpler then I was making it out to be. Instead of handling the TextChanged event I instead handled the KeyUp event. This works like a charm:

        private void OnKeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if(e.KeyCode != Keys.Back && e.KeyCode != Keys.Delete && e.KeyCode != Keys.Shift && e.KeyCode != Keys.Home && e.KeyCode != Keys.Left && e.KeyCode != Keys.Right)
            {
                string input = comboBox2.Text;
                sSql = "SQL Statement";
                dt = da.getDataTable(sSql);

                if(dt.Rows.Count != 0)
                {
                    comboBox2.Items.Clear();
                    foreach(DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
                    {
                        comboBox2.Items.Add(dr["Name"]);
                    }
                }


                int index = comboBox2.FindString(input);
                if(index != -1)
                {
                    comboBox2.SelectedIndex = index;
                    comboBox2.Select(input.Length, comboBox2.Text.Length);
                }
            }

        }

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Unless, of course, you want to hire me to do work for you.
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