Re: ComboBox DropDown Size: Design vs Run Time?

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Joseph M. Newcomer wrote: 
I never set it at design time. See my dynamically-resizing dropdown class on my MVP Tips
site. It has the advantage that it successfully avoids ever putting up a scrollbar if

Why don't you set it to like 1024 or 2048 at design time? Then you don't need the extra code and I think it does exactly what you wish.

But: ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);

Does that work correctly on multi-monitor systems with different resolutions on each monitor or weird setups?
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