""Geoff Worboys"" <geoff@...> wrote in message
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> > > asked why his ibolabel did not became bold when using a
> > > tib_lookupcombo and the field was required.
> >
> > I am looking into this one. I was not happy with the change you
> > sent only because I think that there is a better place for it,
> > but I need to check.
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> > There is also a problem under Delphi3 where the autolabel is
> > not resizing when the label is made bold. It appears to be a
> > Delphi3 only problem (at least all seems ok under Delphi5). I
> > think Claudio is investigating this apsect to find the best
> > place to put in a Delphi3 only fix.
> >
> >
> > > The changes i made were close to what i wanted but there
> > > are still many things not ok, like:
> > > after post the ibolabel remains bold,
> >
> > This may be another Delphi3 problem, since all appears OK
> > under Dephi5.
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> Hmmm, I may have been a bit hasty before. If all of these questions
> were specific to LookupCombo then I think the problems apply to all
> versions. I also think I have found a fix.
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> Note: It has been my opinion that the label displayed with the lookup
> should be the name/label for the DisplayField of the LookupCombo, and
> not the keyfield of the lookup dataset or the foreign key field of the
> main dataset. However the test for mandatory must come directly from
> the foreign key field of the main dataset.

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> With the fix I have in place I can show the label for either the
> displayfield or the foreign key of the main dataset. Unless anyone
> posts otherwise in the meantime I will leave the autolabel displaying
> from the displayfield.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>

I completely agree with you. That's what i wanted too, but it was my first
look at your code
with no idea of what to look for. So is this going to be in ibo soon ?

> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
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