Editable combobox events

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Beaker
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Horrid workaround:
Strict 

Local window:TGadget
Local combobox:TGadget
Local retbutt:TGadget

window=CreateWindow("My Window",30,20,200,200)

combobox=CreateComboBox(4,4,120,22,window,COMBOBOX_EDITABLE)
AddGadgetItem combobox,"Short"
AddGadgetItem combobox,"Medium"
AddGadgetItem combobox,"Fat",True
AddGadgetItem combobox,"Humungous"

retbutt = CreateButton("Enter",125,4,40,20,window,BUTTON_OK)

While WaitEvent()
	Select EventID()
		Case EVENT_GADGETACTION
			Print "eventdata="+EventData()+" "+EventText()
			Select EventSource()
				Case retbutt
					Print ComboBoxText(combobox)
					AddGadgetItem combobox,ComboBoxText(combobox)

			End Select
		Case EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE
			End
	End Select
Wend



Function ComboBoxText:String(Gadget:TGadget)
	Local StrLen% = SendMessageA( QueryGadget(Gadget,QUERY_HWND),WM_GETTEXTLENGTH,0,0 )+1
	Local char_buff:Tbank = CreateBank(StrLen)

	SendMessageA( QueryGadget(Gadget,QUERY_HWND),WM_GETTEXT,StrLen,Int(BankBuf(Char_buff )));

	Local Res$
	For Local index% = 0 To StrLen-2
		Res$:+Chr(PeekByte(Char_buff,index))
	Next
	
	Return Res$
End Function