Marcia --

The article in FoxPro Adviser (Sept. 1998) that you mentioned below is not available online anymore. Do you know of any other way to access it?

(I'm interested in incremental search in a combobox with about 3,000 items).

Thanks,

>for incremantal search of a combobox:
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>Is there some reason in particular that you are giving me this information < s > ?
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>If you are asking about how to implement incremental search (quick fill style) in a drop down combo, I can refer you to several good sources on how to accomplish this:
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>In Chapter 5 of 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro we present a quicken style quick fill combo as well as several sub-classes:
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>Quickfill combos (Example: CH05.VCX::cboQFill)
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>One example of quickfill methodology (and a more detailed explanation of just what "quickfill" is) was presented in Chapter 4 in the incremental search TextBox. This methodology is even easier to implement for the ComboBox class. Quickfill combo boxes give your forms a polished and professional look. They also make the task of selecting an item in the list much easier for the end user. Just type the letter 'S' in the text portion of the combo, and 'Samuel' is displayed. Next type the letter 'm' and the DisplayValue changes to 'Smith.' Very cool stuff!
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>Our quickfill combo can be used no matter what the RowSource of the ComboBox happens to be because it operates on the control's internal list. For this reason, it should only be used for controls that display, at most, a few dozen items. If you require this functionality, but need to display hundreds of items, we refer you to Tamar Granor's article on the subject in the September 1998 issue of FoxPro Advisor.
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>Alternatively, you could check out Tamar Granor's article on the subject in the September 1998 issue of FoxPro Advisor at http://foxpro.advisor.com/doc/02412:
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>INTERFACE TECHNIQUES
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>Add QuickFill to Your Combos
>Subclass combos to make them work like the ones in Quicken.
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>Quicken's QuickFill feature lets users type just enough into a combo box to identify the entry they want. Here's how you can use QuickFill in your VFP applications