weird problem with combobox and a timer

[Green Fuze]

Hey eveyone!

I'm having this REALLY weird problem with a combobox, and I don't even know where to start and look for the solution!

I have created a clock (with a timer, of course), and a combobox with different GMTs, and by changing the combobox the GMT of the clock changes.

everything works perfectly, but with ONE WEIRD PROBLEM!
everytime "-1" or "-3" are being chosen the combobox changes itself to something else (if it is -3 it turns into -3:30, and if it is -1 it changes to -12),
but the clock does change to the right GMT, only the text in the combobox changes.
that means that the String of the combobox (m_strGMT) is still -3 (or -1), but for some reason the combobox still changes the text inside.

I immidatly suspected the timer UpdateData(FALSE) (for the clock) as the fault for that, and I was right, when I deleted these lines, it did not happen, but the clock of course does not work.

does anyone have any kind of idea how to fix this bug ???


THANKS!!!

[Green Fuze]

okay, I figured it out! (after sometime...)
I solved it B-U-T, I had to change some things that I don't want to change, and there must be a way to correct it some other way

the data of my combobox looked something like this:
-12;-11;-10 .... -2;-1;0;+1 ... ;

the thing is that -12 is above -1, so when the combobox's string (m_strGMT) is
"-1" and the dialog is being updated, VC++.net looks for "-1" from top to bottom.
when it find "-12" it sees the the - and the 1 from the whole -12, and it fits its search, while ignoring the 2 (which is the difference between -1 and -12), so the combobox thinks that "-1" is "-12" and select -12 instead of -1 (which is really the m_strGMT value).

the problem is how to tell VC++.net that it should check "-1" as the *whole* string and not just a part of a string (which is the case in -12).

Thanks! :-)