>>>>>>Help!! I have this combo box that is an array. When I key data into the combo it will stay displayed until I leave or tab to a new field. How do I get this to stay displayed?
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>>>>>>Holly Clawson
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>>>>>Does anybody agree with me that the FoxPro team really missed the boat either with design or documentation of combo boxes??
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>>>>>Anyway, Deja vu, all over again....
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>>>>>Holly,
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>>>>>Are you selecting from the list, or is this a new value? If it's a new value, you should store the DisplayValue to a variable, add the item to the array, requery and reset DisplayValue to equal the variable. Ed and I posted an answer to a similar problem yesterday. If you're selecting from the list, you shouldn't have that behavior.
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>>>>>Hey Michel, is there a FAQ listed somewhere on combos at VFUG? These combo threads are getting repetitive and old and I'm among the worst offenders.
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>>>>>Matt
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>>>>Matt
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>>>>Are you telling me I ask to many questions about combos. They sure are giving me a terrible time.
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>>>>--Holly
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>>>Nope, I'm saying that I ask too many questions about combo boxes. Heck, maybe Ed's right...time to go back and hit the books. I haven't cracked them in a couple of months... :-)
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>>>BTW, I STILL think the combobox behavior is kludgey sometimes.
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>>>Matt
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>>You know Matt, two years ago I got VFP manual few months earlier than I got real product, so I had time to went through the books. Surely, if somebody gets VFP, his first motion is to use 2.6 techniques where many developers (including myself) used arrays under popups.
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>quit using arrays as soon as m$ gave us the ability to specify tables as control sources...
Absolutely... 100% true.