I don't even have VFE 5 installed anywhere to test it, but in later versions of VFE views can be indexed - in fact can have multiple indexes - and the incremental searching is done by setting the SearchIndexTag prop of the field to the tag.

I haven't written an app in 5 years that is table based.

( quite honestly, IMO VFE5 was a beta - very much like VFP 3 and 5. There was a lot wrong with it. VFE6 was a complete framework rewrite - totally different animal. If it were me, I wouldn't use it for a production app. )



>To support nested parent/child/grandchild bizobjs seamlessly, they must all be based on views in VFE5. I eventually remembered that incremental search is not supported with views - mainly because, as you pointed out, the framework code depends on an index, which the view doesn't have (views are typically ORDERed instead).
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>However, I was able to link in a modified version of the grid.Search method which uses LOCATE instead of SEEK and it works fine for the small number of records I'm dealing with.
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>There doesn't seem to be any related setting(s) in DBCX for this feature in VFE5.
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>>You might find nobody at F1 remembers how VFE 5 works either <g>
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>>Incremental searching usually depends on an index on UPPER(fieldname)
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>>In 6.0+ you need to set a DBCX prop as well, but don't remember in 5.0
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>>>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.