>>How do I programmatically change the selected item on a list control, when I do not know the IndexID?
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>>I have a form which contains a list of contacts on the left side, and the detail for the selected contact on the right side (a container object of textfields). I add a new contact by:
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>>When the user has completed the record, they click a "Confirm" button that does the TableUpdate.
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>>At that point, I want the new contact to be selected in the list. It does appear in the list, as it is bound to the same cursor as the container object fields, but I can't get it to move to the correct field. I do not know the list item # of the new record at that time.
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>>TIA.
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>Probably it will work if you:
>1. Move pointer in cursor to the record you want to select.
>2. Actually nIndex in this case will = recno(), if you don't use index. So reset Selected property using Recno()!

Sorry, it's indexed, that won't work.