What's wrong?
I've discovered some nasty bugs or "misbehaviour" that I've descrived,
for my future reference, in 3 pages of italian text regardsing
lookupscombo that DO work outside the grid, but DOES NOT when dropped
into the grid.
Anyway, try to:
a) set DisplayField to the field the lookup is linked to (i.e.
customer_id)
b) DisplayField without table name (not customer.customer_id but only
customer_id)
c) if you have KeyDescLinks set, use the syntax:
BRANCH.DESCRIPTION=BRANCHDESCRIPTION
and not like
BRANCH.DESCRIPTION=EMPLOYEE.BRANCHDESCRIPTION
otherwise the lookup will not appear in the grid.
Sorry, but I'm in a hurry and the 3 italian pages should be read much
more carefully to understand all the situations that are wrong, and I
should test them again against the last IBO release.
regards
Marco Menardi

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Raymond Kennington <progsol@c...> wrote:
> The explanations in the GSG for using a LookupCombo are grossly
inadequate!
>
> I have tried for 2 1/2 hours to get some useful results based on
either Demo 1,
> 2 or 3. It's extremely frustrating to have to learn something through
> trial-and-no-success.
>
> Here are some rules for discussing the demos:
>
> 1. Start each demo discussion anew as if the other demos didn't exist.
>
> 2. Do not discuss anything cosmetic at all (e.g. nice titles) that
have nothing
> to do with the item being discussed, which is LookupCombos in the
section
> mentioned.
>
> 3. The text should be tested literally so as to improve it until it
(1) works,
> (2) works smoothly, and (3) contains no extraneous information.
>
> This has been an extraordinary exercise in frustration.
> --
> Raymond Kennington
> Programming Solutions
> W2W Team B