>>>I’d like to put a combo box on my form, have the combo box list populated from a cursor and display the associated value from the parent table. I’m not using views or relations only cursors from a select. The parent table has a key (parent.nCatKey) that relates to a child table (child.nCatKey). When a record is displayed the proper text value (child.cCatName) is display in the combo box and when a change is made the proper key is updated on the parent record.
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>>>I’ve been able to do this with success if I hand enter the values into the combo box. I would imagine this is something pretty easy to do?
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>>>TIA,
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>>>/Chris
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>>Look at the recordsource and recordsourcetype properties of the combo box.
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>Craig,
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>I tried this:
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>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.RowSource=""
>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.ControlSource=""
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>THISFORM.ExeSQL("SELECT cSpCatName FROM SponCategory","Q_SponCat",1)
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>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.RowSourceType=2
>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.RowSource="Q_SponCat"
>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.ControlSource="Q_SponCat.cSpCatName"
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>THISFORM.CodeFrame.SponsorPage.SponCatCbo.Refresh
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>It populates the combo box but I can't seem to get it to point to the value of the parent table and when I make a selection it inserts a blank value into the combo box.
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>/Chris

Combo box values are always characters. Could this be your problem?