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Windows 2003 Server
Makes it doubly difficult when MS posts mistakes like that :)
>I have the impression that the text quoted was just a little careless, and confused the two.
>
>>Thanks. I was really going to lose it if my understanding of combo boxes was so far off :)
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>>>Your interpretation sounds reasonable to me.
>>>
>>>The search is done in the data fetched from the RecordSource.
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>>>The selected value (which may be in a visible or in an invisible column, BTW) is stored to the ControlSource.
>>>
>>>>As a newbie I have really been struggling with getting a combo box control to work in a grid. My major problem is that the combo's dropdown list closes as soon as I type any character (well, within a fraction of a second). This makes incremental searches a tad difficult :) While Googling, I came across a MS KB article # 166378, which states:
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>>>>"The combo box control has an Incremental Search property that, when set to true (.T.), searches the Control Source of the combo box with each keystroke."
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>>>>I thought it searched the ROWSOURCE, no? Maybe it was just poor wording in this article, and they really meant RowSource?
>>>>
>>>>My understanding is that the ControlSource is the field/data object to which the control is bound.
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>>-Mike
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