Returns the name of the currently selected entry in a ListBox or ComboBox.
Choice := ControlGetChoice(Control , WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText)
Type: String, Integer or Object
The control's ClassNN, text or HWND, or an object with a Hwnd property. For details, see The Control Parameter.
Type: String, Integer or Object
If each of these is blank or omitted, the Last Found Window will be used. Otherwise, specify for WinTitle a window title or other criteria to identify the target window and/or for WinText a substring from a single text element of the target window (as revealed by the included Window Spy utility).
ExcludeTitle and ExcludeText can be used to exclude one or more windows by their title or text. Their specification is similar to WinTitle and WinText, except that ExcludeTitle does not recognize any criteria other than the window title.
Window titles and text are case-sensitive. By default, hidden windows are not detected and hidden text elements are detected, unless changed with DetectHiddenWindows and DetectHiddenText; however, when using pure HWNDs, hidden windows are always detected regardless of DetectHiddenWindows. By default, a window title can contain WinTitle or ExcludeTitle anywhere inside it to be a match, unless changed with SetTitleMatchMode.
Type: String
This function returns the name of the currently selected entry in a ListBox or ComboBox.
A TargetError is thrown if the window or control could not be found, or if the control's class name does not contain "Combo" or "List".
An Error is thrown on failure.
To instead retrieve the position of the selected item, follow this example (use only one of the first two lines):
ChoicePos := SendMessage(0x0188, 0, 0, "ListBox1", WinTitle) ; 0x0188 is LB_GETCURSEL (for a ListBox). ChoicePos := SendMessage(0x0147, 0, 0, "ComboBox1", WinTitle) ; 0x0147 is CB_GETCURSEL (for a DropDownList or ComboBox). ChoicePos += 1 ; Convert from 0-based to 1-based, i.e. so that the first item is known as 1, not 0. ; ChoicePos is now 0 if there is no item selected.
ControlChooseIndex, ControlChooseString, Value property (GuiControl object), Choose method (GuiControl object), Control functions