Window styles and Declares

Targets macOS
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I’m working on a custom combo box. I have the drop down list working well on windows, by using a global floating window combined with the following declare.

'DList is the dropdown list window #If TargetWin32 Then Const GWL_STYLE = -16 Const WS_Custom = &H40800000 Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (hwnd As Integer, nIndex As Integer, dwNewLong As Integer) As Integer dim i as Integer i = SetWindowLong( DList.Handle, GWL_STYLE, WS_Custom ) #EndIf

It doesn’t work at all on Mac. Can anyone help me adapt this to Mac? I don’t really want to post the project on the forum but could email a dropbox link or post a generic project.

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In the CEF control I found a popup window used for auto complete, that acted like I wanted. It took me a while to find out how it was done. When I exported to a text project I saw the MacProcID was set to 1040. I could not find a way to do that other than manually editing the text project.
https://forum.xojo.com/40906-help-to-maintain-sanity-popup-windows

Is this the right way? How do others do it?

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No, it’s not the right way. It’s only available for Carbon. You will need to set the window frame using a declare just like on Windows.
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/Window.MacProcID

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Ok thanks. I found the answer on another thread.