IAutoCompleteDropDown::GetDropDownStatus method (shobjidl.h)

Gets the current display status of the autocomplete drop-down list.

Syntax

HRESULT GetDropDownStatus(
  [out] DWORD  *pdwFlags,
  [out] LPWSTR *ppwszString
);

Parameters

[out] pdwFlags

Type: DWORD*

A pointer to a value indicating whether the autocomplete drop-down list is currently displayed. This parameter can be NULL on entry if this information is not needed. The following values are recognized as the target of this pointer.

(0x0000)

The list is not visible.

ACDD_VISIBLE (0x0001)

The list is visible.

[out] ppwszString

Type: LPWSTR*

A pointer to a buffer containing the first select item in the drop-down list, if the value pointed to by pdwFlags is ACDD_VISIBLE. This value can be NULL on entry if this information is not needed.

If pdwFlags is zero on exit, then this value will be NULL.

If this value is not NULL on exit, the buffer it points to must be freed using CoTaskMemFree when it is no longer needed.

Return value

Type: HRESULT

If this method succeeds, it returns S_OK. Otherwise, it returns an HRESULT error code.

Requirements

See also

IAutoCompleteDropDown