- // we assume that the only child of the combobox is the edit window so it's
- // unnecessary to pass "EDIT" as class name parameter
- return (WXHWND)::FindWindowEx(GetHwnd(), NULL, NULL, NULL);
+ // notice that a slightly safer alternative could be to use FindWindowEx()
+ // but it's not available under WinCE so just take the first child for now
+ // to keep one version of the code for all platforms and fix it later if
+ // problems are discovered
+
+ typedef BOOL (WINAPI *GetComboBoxInfo_t)(HWND, COMBOBOXINFO*);
+ static GetComboBoxInfo_t s_pfnGetComboBoxInfo = NULL;
+ static bool s_triedToLoad = false;
+ if ( !s_triedToLoad )
+ {
+ s_triedToLoad = true;
+ wxLoadedDLL dllUser32("user32.dll");
+ wxDL_INIT_FUNC(s_pfn, GetComboBoxInfo, dllUser32);
+ }
+
+ if ( s_pfnGetComboBoxInfo )
+ {
+ WinStruct<COMBOBOXINFO> info;
+ (*s_pfnGetComboBoxInfo)(GetHwnd(), &info);
+ return info.hwndItem;
+ }
+
+ if (HasFlag(wxCB_SIMPLE))
+ {
+ POINT pt;
+ pt.x = pt.y = 4;
+ return (WXHWND) ::ChildWindowFromPoint(GetHwnd(), pt);
+ }
+
+ // we assume that the only child of the combobox is the edit window
+ return (WXHWND)::GetWindow(GetHwnd(), GW_CHILD);