G'day Dave,
I would mostly echo William's reply but would add:
I used combo boxes initially for lookups to code tables. R:BASE appears
to read all the values from the code tables into memory when the form is
loaded. With quite a few on the form this can chew quite a bit of memory
and can result in a significant delay in the loading. The other disadvantage
in my case was that if you have a button on the form by which you can add
codes to the lookup tables when the user returns to the form the new values
do not automatically display.
At 15:25 19/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Is it only preference or is there a condition that determines when one would
>use a combo box or a pop up menu to look up values in one table to place in
>another (say customer number in a transaction table)?
>
>tia and sorry for such a basic question.
>
>Dave
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