On 14/12/2011 09:17, [email protected] wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Ludo Brands wrote:
I've got your point.
Mine is that the control should keep less intrusive as it was
designed
earlier (the original author explicitly avoided changing
listsource cursor).
Less intrusive became occulted. Not only are we missing an important
(for me
at least) Delphi feature but the current implementation makes it
virtually
impossible to emulate the Delphi behavior since everything related to
the
lookup is private:
A convoluted workaround for DBLookupComboBox was to create a
DBLookupComboBox.OnChange, retrieve DBLookupComboBox.ItemIndex and
move its
listsource to that position. Unfortunately, recent changes have made
this
even more difficult since DBLookupComboBox2.ListSource returns nil if
Datafield is a lookup field. Setting ListSource when Datafield is
ftLookup
was superfluous but possible and useful. Beats me why this was removed.
Progress? Now I have to get the field information of DataField to get
to the
ListSource :
DBLookupComboBox.DataSource.DataSet.FieldByName(DBLookupComboBox.DataField).
LookupDataSet.RecNo:=DBLookupComboBox.ItemIndex+1 :( I'll create a
seperate
bugreport for this regression. Even if ListSource isn't settable for a
ftLookup Datafield, it shouldn't return nil.
DBGrid is even worse. For the picklist I haven't found anything
(event or
property) to get to its index or value.
The remedy for being less intrusive is worse than the disease.
I am totally in agreement with Ludo on this one.
I think the users should at least be offered the opportunity to change
the
behaviour. I have always counted on the Delphi-compatible behaviour:
selecting an element in a lookup positions the cursor in the lookup
dataset.
So a property 'SyncLookupCursor' or so should maybe be introduced. The
default can be 'False', but I for one would need the 'True'.
OK. I can do that
Please open a bug report with a sample project with the expected
behavior pointing that is a delphi compatibility
Since the LookupSource is named ListSource
I think of ScrollList or ScrollListSource or ScrollListCursor
Luiz
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