[AccessD] Help with combo box

David,

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

In your code test on me.cboRental.OldValue and prevent user for changing the
OldValue to a new ....

regards
borge


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David & Joanne Gould" <dajomigo at tpg.com.au>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Help with combo box


> Rocky
>
> I had a look but the combo box doesn't have a oncurrent event. If you meant
> for the form - the form is a continuous form and time I set the combo box
> to disabled it disables every instance of it.
>
> David
>
> At 03:17 PM 1/03/2006, you wrote:
> >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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