Hi,
I am building this Autocomplete list ActiveX control for my ASP application. Basically it only contains a combobox in VB (style: 1 simple combo), populated with data from SQL server, but it has the auto complete function. (Since I think there is no such function in HTML drop-down
list). It works fine on my ASP page. But I am thinking to implement one more thing in my ActiveX control.
Every time when I select an item in the control and submit it to the server, the same asp page returns with the control and the additional information about the item. Now I need the selected item value be the default value of the control (like set to the combobox.text in vb). I set a property "combotext" of the control, assign it with the select item when submitting the page. But the problem is that when the page returns, a new instance of the control is created, since I loaded the combo items in usercontrol_initialze(), and I have no clue how I can set combobox.text by passing some external data in the initialize event.
To make myself clear, what I want is to set the combobox default value to some user-passed value. And it is not possible in usercontrol_initialze() event since it does not take any parameters. The dilemma is that I need this value set in somewhere like the usercontrol_initialze() that setup the control at design time.
Is it possible or is there any workaround?
I would really appreciate your help.
cindy
I am building this Autocomplete list ActiveX control for my ASP application. Basically it only contains a combobox in VB (style: 1 simple combo), populated with data from SQL server, but it has the auto complete function. (Since I think there is no such function in HTML drop-down
list). It works fine on my ASP page. But I am thinking to implement one more thing in my ActiveX control.
Every time when I select an item in the control and submit it to the server, the same asp page returns with the control and the additional information about the item. Now I need the selected item value be the default value of the control (like set to the combobox.text in vb). I set a property "combotext" of the control, assign it with the select item when submitting the page. But the problem is that when the page returns, a new instance of the control is created, since I loaded the combo items in usercontrol_initialze(), and I have no clue how I can set combobox.text by passing some external data in the initialize event.
To make myself clear, what I want is to set the combobox default value to some user-passed value. And it is not possible in usercontrol_initialze() event since it does not take any parameters. The dilemma is that I need this value set in somewhere like the usercontrol_initialze() that setup the control at design time.
Is it possible or is there any workaround?
I would really appreciate your help.
cindy
