How to display text in a DBlookupcombobox? 1

[pierrotsc]

I have a DBloolupcombobox associated with an table from an absolute database.
I want to display the first record value and not a blank value in it when my program starts in the onactivate event.

I tried: DBLookupcombobox.text:=TableTrial.FieldByName('TrialName').AsString; but it says that the left side is read-only.

I hope i am making sense.Right now when i click on the pull down arrow, I see all my values from the tables. I just want to display the first value in thge table and not a blank value.

Thanks.
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[majlumbo]

What you have to understand is that the dblookupcombobox always displays the current value reflected in the 'fieldname' of your 'datasource', and looks up that value and displays the 'listfield' of your 'listsource'. So if the fieldname value is null, no value will be selected (i.e. displayed), if there's a value, it looks up the value and displays it.

Whether there's a value in your datasource or not, all the items in the 'listsource' should be made available in the dropdown.

 

[pierrotsc]

I figured it out. Your answer pointed me to the right track. I was using the wrong component.
Thanks.