What VBA event allows to capture click value of ActiveX combobox? - excel

Question

After choosing item from ActiveX combobox by mouse click I would like the combobox to be closed and the item to be chosen.
Here is an example.
I have tried TempCombo_Click event but it is fired AFTER the TempCombo_Change event. And when I select item by click, my search string passed to TempCombo_Change event is empty. So I need something to preserve item selection in TempCombo_Change event.
I use modification of VBA code taken from Autocomplete suggestion in Excel data validation list again
Here is VBA exact code I use to generate the above example.
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim xCombox As OLEObject
Dim xStr As String
Dim xWs As Worksheet
Dim xArr
Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet
On Error Resume Next
Set xCombox = xWs.OLEObjects("TempCombo")
With xCombox
.ListFillRange = ""
.LinkedCell = ""
.Visible = False
End With
If Target.Validation.Type = 3 Then
Target.Validation.InCellDropdown = False
'Cancel = True
xStr = Target.Validation.Formula1
xStr = Right(xStr, Len(xStr) - 1)
If xStr = "" Then Exit Sub
With xCombox
.Visible = True
.Left = Target.Left
.Top = Target.Top
.Width = Target.Width + 5
.Height = Target.Height + 5
.ListFillRange = xStr
If .ListFillRange = "" Then
xArr = Split(xStr, Application.International(xlListSeparator))
Me.TempCombo.List = xArr
End If
.LinkedCell = Target.Address
End With
xCombox.Activate
Me.TempCombo.DropDown
End If
End Sub
Private Sub TempCombo_KeyDown(ByVal KeyCode As MSForms.ReturnInteger, ByVal Shift As Integer)
Select Case KeyCode
Case 9 'tab
Application.ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Activate
Case 13 'enter
Application.ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Activate
End Select
End Sub
Private Sub TempCombo_Change()
If Me.TempCombo = "" Then Exit Sub
ActiveSheet.OLEObjects(1).ListFillRange = ""
ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("TempCombo").Object.Clear
ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("TempCombo").Activate
With Me.TempCombo
If Not .Visible Then Exit Sub
.Visible = False 'to refresh the drop down
.Visible = True
.Activate
'Dump the range into a 2D array
Dim Arr2D As Variant
Arr2D = [RangeItems].Value
'Declare and resize the 1D array
Dim Arr1D As Variant
ReDim Arr1D(1 To UBound(Arr2D, 1))
'Convert 2D to 1D
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To UBound(Arr2D, 1)
Arr1D(i) = Arr2D(i, 1)
Next
Dim itm As Variant 'itm is for iterate purpose
Dim ShortItemList() As Variant 'ShortItemList() is a variable which stores only filtered items
i = -1
For Each itm In Arr1D
If InStr(1, itm, .Value, vbTextCompare) > 0 Or .Value = "" Then
Debug.Print itm
i = i + 1
ReDim Preserve ShortItemList(i)
ShortItemList(i) = itm
End If
Next itm
.DropDown
End With
On Error Resume Next 'if we filter too much, there will be no items on ShortItemList
ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("TempCombo").Object.List = ShortItemList
End Sub

Answer 1

This line in the TempCombo_Click event solved the problem:
ActiveCell.Value = ThisWorkbook.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("TempCombo").Object.Value