RE: TZF - tzListBox - CONTINUING

I'm puzzled... the base behaviour you require is provided by the
standard DBLookUpListBox.
 
Since the current record of the dataset is set when selecting any item
picking up the secondary values is trivial... just read them from the
current record.
 
But am I missing something? Are you, perhaps, using a version of Delphi
where the TTzDBF can't be used with the default data controls? (I seem
to remember that being a problem before D5)
 
A.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Kidder [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 07 November 2003 14:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: TZF - tzListBox - CONTINUING


Bob,
 
You have the idea. I want to assign the database and the datafield in
the properties. Then when I display the listbox it would automatically
be filled with the values in the datafield.
 
Ex: DBFile: Plants.dbf
      datafield: Shrubs
The value of Shrubs is ROSES, MOCK ORANGE, AZALEA
When the tzlistbox is displayed it should contain the lines ROSES, MOCK
ORANGE, AZALEA. Any filters that are in effect on the database should
effect the items displayed.
 
While I am giving my wish list it would be nice if there was a second
field in the listbox that would be hidden from view. Then when a value
is picked I could get the value in the second field and work with it.
 
Ex: For each Shrub displayed the hidden field could contain the shrubs
index value or record number which I could use for further processing.
 
Phil
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: [email protected] 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: TZF - tzListBox - CONTINUING

In a message dated 11/06/2003 9:16:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:




Bob,

Thanks for the explanation, but it is not the way I would design a
listbox. Most of the time I want to pick from the items in a database
not update a field in a database.

I still think it should load automatically from the file and allow me to
set a filter.

Phil




... continuing ... sorry, I hit the SEND by mistake.

A database with a field named   "shrub"   and a listBox1 ...
You want to do what???    Maybe fill up the listBox1 with all
the unique values of    "shrub"    in the database??

Explain what you want to do??

Bob

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