What ADO VB6 control should I use to allow user input then search

[agrabham]

I am a beginner VB/ADO programmer on a tight schedule. I need to know what would be the best control to use if I want my form to come up with several "textboxes" that are bound to fields in a recordset. I want each of these controls to be blank at first, the user will type in 3 or 4 characters (the first part of the name of a company) into the first control, and at each character, the control will show the companies that match so far (drop-down is good). When the right company is listed in the actual first line of the control, the user can just tab onto the next control which can be filled with the things that would be selected based on the first controls selection, but I need the user to be able to enter a first letter or two to narrow the search. From that point on the second control works like the first and then the third like the second. I have tried textbox,datacombo,datalist,... but none of them accepts input for use in a match.

Please help! This is the basis of all the rest of my "program". If I can just get past this, I know I'll be good to go. Any help is appreciated. Please be as specific as possible. Thank you !!

 

[agrabham]

I figured this out. I had to set the datacombo box style to 2. Once I did this, the extended matching worked great. Hope this helps someone else.