[AccessD] ComboBox question

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Mar 9 17:34:26 CDT 2008


AFAIK, you can't have more than a single row for an item in a Listbox or Combobox.

In this case, I'd stick a multiline Textbox beside the combobox with a value of 
"=cboDescription.Column(1)".


On 9 Mar 2008 at 17:26, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> I phrased it wrong. The combo displays an ID column and a Description
> column, the latter being text 255 and the user might just fill it. So
> displaying it with a simple horizontal scrollbar is, well, not great. I may
> have to actually display the Description once the user has selected an item,
> so she can see all the text. (It's detailed, and has legal implications, so
> it's important that she reads it all to see if that's the right selection.)
> 
> A.
> 
> On 3/9/08, Eric Starkenburg <eric.starkenburg at home.nl> wrote:
> >
> > You make me curious Arthur, what do you have in mind with the combo using
> > it
> > as a memo fld?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric
> >
> >
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