You might find nobody at F1 remembers how VFE 5 works either <g>
Incremental searching usually depends on an index on UPPER(fieldname)
In 6.0+ you need to set a DBCX prop as well, but don't remember in 5.0
>Using Visual FoxExpress 5.0
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>It's been a while since I last worked with this framework. I'm trying to enable the "keyboard steering" (incremental search) in the List grid of a Data Entry & List form.
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>I've set the grid's lSearchGrid property to .T., but no joy. When I try typing while the first column of the grid has focus I just get "dings", as if the column/grid is readonly (which it is but shouldn't matter in this case (?))
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>Can anyone remember how to make this work? The 5.x Peer Support forum at F1 is basically non-existent.
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>UPDATE - never mind, I worked around it.
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