Hi Joe,

You've missed one property: Style. Set it to 2 (Drop-down list box) in stead
of 0 (Drop-down combobox)
>From the help: 
'Drop-down combo box, which includes a list box and an edit box. (Default)
The user can select from the list box or type characters in the edit box.'


Regards,
Sietse Wijnker
SW-Software

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Namens Joe Yoder
Verzonden: vrijdag 19 september 2008 1:04
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Newbee - Best practice for ComboBox control with a list from an
outside source

My application builds a cursor, Customers, of customer names and ids from
QuickBooks.  I want my user to select a valid customer from that cursor via
a ComboBox.  That seems to work with ComboBox properties :
  BoundColumn = 1
  ControlSource = Customers.Fullname
  RowSource = Customers.Fullname
  RowSourceType = 6 - Fields
 
The form should initialize with the ComboBox initialized to the same
customer as the previous transaction.  I have tried initializing the
ComboBox.value with the old customer name saved from the previous
transaction and it appears to work but if the old customer name is no longer
in the Customers cursor, some random? record gets overwritten with the old
value.
 
I will probably index the Customer cursor and have the initialization code
set near on to seek for the old customer name, but I thought someone with
experience might suggest a better/simpler approach.
 
Thanks in advance for any comments - Joe


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