Combo Box on a Grid

[grads]

Hi,

I need some help and nobody in my office seems to know why this isn't working. I have a DataEntry grid and within one of the columns I have Cbobasedropdown Combo Box. On the properties of this combo box I have Rowsource Type set to 1-Value and in the Rowsource I have 3 values; SELL,BUY,LOAN and they are separated by commas. I also have column count set to 1 and set columnwidths to 100. When I run my form I run a program that populates the grid and I have an "Add" button so as to add a new record to the grid. When I click the "Add" btton I can see the combo box in the grid but when I click on it there are no values in the drop down portion. When I create this combo box on the form itself it works fine and the column width of the field in the table is wide enough to accomodate these values. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me on this. Thank you

 

[chpicker]

I'm not sure what the problem could be. It worked for me. Here's what I did:

Create Table Test (name c(5),type c(4))

I created a form, opened the data environment, added my Test table to it, and dragged the table onto the form to create a grid. I added a combobox to the form, cut it from the form, pasted it into Column2 of the grid, then deleted the text box from Column2. I set the RowSource of the combobox to "SELL,BUY,LOAN" (without the quotes), and set RowSourceType to "1 - Value". In the Click() event of the button, I put the code:

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thisform.grdTest.setfocus()

I ran the form, clicked the button, and the pull-down ComboBox had the 3 values in it.

Try following exactly what I did and see if it works for you.

 

[jesylv]

Did the same as chpicker and wasn't able to reproduce faulty behavior. Are you using a sub class of the combo control. If yes, check the custom methods.

Hope this helps

Jean

 

[grads]

Thank you two for your efforts. I got it kind of working but not really. That way of doing it works but we use some thing called Visual Maxframes and I have to use that data entry grid. I did hack into the grid created by dragging the table onto the form and convert it into the grid I need to use and it works but if I make one change I gett errors telling me a member class has been removed. I'm going to play around with it and see what I come up with.

Thanks so much.

 

[grads]

I got it working! It turns out that when I set the Rowsource and value in the properties of the combo box somehow Foxpro is not reading it but when I set those properties programmatically in the ShellAdditionalInit it works fine. I don't know why it didn't work the other way but at this point I just don't care. Thanks everyone for you help.

 

[chpicker]

Most likely there is code somewhere that is changing the values you placed there. Using custom controls that you didn't write can be quite frustrating in that regard. (