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Typing help (autocompletion) in DBComboBox

I have a database app. in which one of the fields is "author". When the user starts entering the author name I want to be able to give "typing help" (eg IE4 address bar). That is as they type the author name it will compare it to the items in the combobox and bring up the nearest match as they continue to type - autocompletion style.

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John

SOLHJOO

Please check DBlookupcombo or DBlookuplist....

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Matvey

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kjteng

All the list box and combobox has the "autocompletion" feature if the list is sorted. However if you are using delphi 1, the autocompletion works only when the (16bits) program is running under windows95. When delphi 1 program runs under win3.11, the listbox/combobox works differently: if you continuously press a character, the next items beginning with that character will be selected. eg If you press B repeately, you may get Ball, followed by Bell, Bill, Bull ... etc.

Matvey

I think I've even seen some control like this as a db-aware. Lookup of some kind with this option. I'll try to find it again...

Matvey

OK, I found it, but it's not what I thought. Close, but not better than the one I posted above. If you still want to take a look: http://bes.trendline.co.il/torry/vcl/packs/accomp.zip

Anyway, what I'd do if I was on your place, is get the list of all the names like
SELECT DISTINCT Name FROM Authors;
And then post them all to the autocompletion list (in the first pair of components I posted).

JohnE

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Thanks Matvey, I used the component from your first answer and worked my code around it and it works fine!

John