Pick lists and such get pulled down and populated as needed. The type of querying you are doing in the grid is definately not recommended. They should enter a search criteria of some kind (last name, customer number, etc) and then pull the records that meet that request.

I am wondering why you are using RDO? It's slow and a pig.


>I have been given a totally simple project to pump out and am going to use it as an oportunity to go to a middle data handling tier. I want to use Jim Booth's article "Building Middle Tier Objects in Visual Foxpro". In it he offered a simplified data handler object. The article as far as it went presents no problem to me but as always the devil is in the detials.
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>I use a "FastFind" system which my users are acustomed to seeing. In it I display a grid on a seperate form & using the ingrid component they can incrementally select from the displayed records sorted by which ever column they are in.
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>Using the data component (calls an RDO connection so far), I am afraid pulling down large numbers of records over say an intranet connection will be too slow for this type of thing.
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>What do other people do to populate grids & combo boxes etc. over these remote link situations.
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>Thanks in advance
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>Terry
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>P.S. Yes I need to update my personal message. Any ideas for a different joke line?