- // 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
+
+ // we assume that the only child of the combobox is the edit window
+ return (WXHWND)::GetWindow(GetHwnd(), GW_CHILD);