At 05:50 AM 24/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>IB_lookupcombo / IB_grid viewing problem
>
>
>I have a form that contains ib_lookupcombo which use to selecting an
>item, other ib_edit for other field and a ib_grid wherein all the
>controls have the same datasource. When the user inputs the record by
>selecting an item in the ib_lookupcombo it appears to have no problem
>all in the ib_grid viewing.
>
>but when an item is selected thur programming ...for example ...
>table.fieldbyname('itemid').asstring:=111; the ib_lookupcombo will
>appears correctly display the item name that corresponds to the
>itemid. but the IB_grid, the field itemname appears to be blank. I
>wonder why?

Assuming you are getting the field itemname from a subquery, it won't get
its new value until the grid's dataset is refreshed (thus refreshing the
subquery expression column).

Helen