[AccessD] Help with combo box

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Tue Feb 28 22:17:37 CST 2006


David:

So could you make the combo box enabled in the Current event (moving to 
a new record) and disable it after the user makes a selection?

But that leads to another problem.  People make mistakes.  So you have 
to give them a way to back out of an erroneous selection.

Rocky


David & Joanne Gould wrote:
> Susan
>
> The only property list I can see is the property dialog box for the whole 
> control. What I need to setup is a way that makes it impossible for the 
> user to change their selection once they have made one (unless they delete 
> the record first) but still lets them use the double-click event to open 
> the form to change the rental type for the title.
>
> TIA
>
> David
>
> At 02:36 PM 1/03/2006, you wrote:
>   
>> Are you talking about the Dropdown property? Isn't there a Dropdown property
>> that you can set to automatically open the list? Is that what you're after?
>>
>> Susan H.
>>
>> The Double-click event is set to open another form to change the Rental Type
>> for this movie title. What I was wondering was if there was a way to access
>> the drop-down arrow on the combo box as a separate thing. This might
>> separate the main part of the control where all the other code is connected.
>> Can it be done?
>>
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