I use mustang peak http://www.mustangpeak.net/ drop down forms for this. I (conceptually) set a timer when the user starts typing. Every xxx ms, I run a query and populate a component on the drop down form. Depending on where I using it, and how slow the search is, I run the search is in the main thread or a background thread. In my main app, I just run refresh a stored proc component when the user stops typing for a brief time, and do it in the main thread. That is plenty quick enough. In other apps though, I have run searches in a background thread and only done the vcl update in the main thread. Sean From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: 12 August 2009 5:39 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Making apps look fancy One thing I would like to be able to do more is the live search boxes, like the Vista start menu/Firefox Address bar/latest Google search results/etc which populate the lists as you type. What is others opinion on the best way to do these in Delphi? (especially using standard VCL and non-data aware controls). I see Delphi 2010 brings in such a feature to the IDE, it does a simple non-indexed search behind the scenes apparently. John
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