ah - sounds good I'll take a look
Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ales Kahanek [mailto:ales.kahanek@...]
Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 2:13 AM
To: 'IBObjects@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [IBO] IB_ComboBox


Hi,
did you try Enhanced components made by Geoff Worboys? It has nice
IB_ComboBoxEnh component which can automatically call user defined procedure
to load its items property like the following example
Paid=0
Unpaid=1

then you have an integer field with appropriate values 0 or 1 and the Combo
displays the text (Paid, Unpaid) and enables comfort editing as well.

Ales

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McDonald [mailto:alan@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [IBO] IB_ComboBox
>
>
> Thanks Helen, I thought as much
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:06 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] IB_ComboBox
>
>
> At 11:12 PM 4/03/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >Is there no way to plug a datasource into the Items property of an
> >IB_ComboBox?
>
> No - like a TDBComboBox, it is "single-datasource-aware". As
> you know, its
> Datasource property targets the IB_Datasource that points to
> the parent
> column that is polling the combobox's editbox for a value.
>
> I normally just populate the items from an ib_cursor via a
> little procedure
> that is called from FormCreate and any other events where I
> want to refresh
> it.
>
> >Or is there another control I should be using?
>
> TIB_LookupCombo is double-datasource-aware. Unlike IB_ComboBox, its
> Datasource property points to a dataset which populates its
> equivalent of
> the IB_ComboBox's Items property. Its DisplayField selects
> the field in
> this dataset that you want to see in the editbox.
>
> To use it as a double-data-aware control, as you know, you use the
> Keysource property of the dataset and point its KeyLinks to the parent
> column, with the option to embed it in the parent IB_Grid.
>
> But you can optionally use this control without Keysource and KeyLinks
> (non-embeddable, of course) as a "reverse combo box".
>
> Helen
>
>
>
>
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