Email Course: Adding Components to a TDBGrid: Third lesson - DropDown pick list inside a DBGrid

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Email Course: Adding Components to a TDBGrid Third lesson - DropDown pick list inside a DBGrid From Zarko Gajic, your Guide to Delphi Programming Here's how to place a drop down pick list into a DBGrid. Create visually more attractive user interfaces for editing lookup fields inside a DBGrid - using the PickList property of a DBGrid column. Three ways to set up a drop down list in a DBGrid Suppose you have a lookup field in your dataset. One way to explain a database lookup field is to say that lookup fields are fields that can *only* accept values from a fixed list of values ("static" or from a dataset). Defining a PickList for a (lookup) field Each Column in a DBGrid is "linked" to a field from a dataset displayed in the grid. What's more, each column has a PickList property. The PickList property lists values that the user can select for the column's linked field value. This email is written by: Zarko Gajic Delphi Programming Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Email Course: Adding Components to a TDBGrid' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement

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