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Cannot make autocomplete work
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10/09/2008 14:47:01
 
 
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10/09/2008 12:07:14
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
MySQL
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01346375
Message ID:
01346442
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11
>Hello,
>
>I try to use autocomplete in a textbox but I am missing something?
>
>First I create the table MyAutoComp.DBF with the Source and Data fields according to the structure of AutoComp.DBF, fill the data values and set use that table as AutoCompTable. I replaced all "Source" with "STREETS" in the Automplete table as well.
>
>
>THIS.txt.AutocompSource = "STREETS"
>THIS.txt.AutocompTable = "MyAutoComp.DBF"
>THIS.txt.AutoComplete = 1
>
>but I don't see it working, it does not show any values that I have in the table.
>
>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Did you create the index too? By the way, there is a bug with the index expression, if your entries are longer than 30 chars, they will repeat in the table, change the index expression from:

UPPER(source+LEFT(data,30))+PADL(count,8)

to maybe:

UPPER(source+LEFT(data,200))+PADL(count,8)

Carlos
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