Re: ComboBox in Grids vs in Forms



Hey Pat,

The quick answer is set the column's Sparse property to .F. This is fairly
fine as long as your record source isn't pretty big and if you're okay with
the "dropdown button" always showing in all rows. If not, you're looking at
some workarounds.

HTH,

John

"Pat" <Pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I need your lights on a grid problem I have.
> When I create a form on which there is a combobox with item descr. bound
> to
> an item no., it works fine (I use a cursor). Whenever I go to another
> record,
> if the item no. changes, the item descr. appears in the combobox.
> But it doesn't seem to work this way in a grid. I try to apply the same
> but
> when I get a list of items, only the item no. appears, no combo. If I
> click
> on the column where the combo is supposed to appear, the combo does
> appears
> with a list of item descr. but when I get to next column, the combo
> disappears again and all is left is the item no.
> Can you help me ? Am I missing something? (I used VFP 7 SP1)
> Thanks.


.



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