Sorry I didn't express myself properly.

I'm still talking about doing filtering with IB_Combos.
What happens is that the combo that should be working as a parameter
holder (since it has no DataField set, and has ParamName set) are
behaving like a simple data aware component.

Alexandre

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 05:36 PM 11/05/2006, you wrote:
>
> >:-) Sorry if I made things complicated now...
> >
> >Lets take it in little pills (easier to swallow) ;-)
> >
> >Assuming everything is set ok (Combos ParamNames match query param
> >names, etc) is there a particular reason for the Combos refuse to set
> >a value?
> >Explaining: Now I can see the combos are filled, but when click a
> >value in the list, nothing goes to the edit box, it stays blank. It's
> >like a read only field or something.
>
> That's a different problem. Your main query is *not* updatable (it
> has joins). To make it so, you will need some custom insert, update
> and delete statements set up in the XxxxSQL properties. You will
> also need to pay careful attention to your KeyLinks on that strange
query....
>
> If you are a newbie with client/server programming, may I suggest
> that you try to get some of the basic things working before diving
> off the deep end with clever controls....?
>
> Helen
>