Re: Performing "auto reduce" search

I did this once, unfortunately, the program is back at my old company!

If i remember correctly, I had a timer start when i enterted the field i wanted to put my search text in and every second or so, the code in the timer would jump to the query block and execute the query based on what i put in the text field. After the query, jump back to the text field etc. The timer was ended on exit from the text field.

It worked fine.

HTH Mark

ppiotrowski_at_riag.com wrote in message
<3766b627.21597775_at_news.int.westgroup.com>...
>I was wondering if anyone has had the joyous task of trying to create
>a field on a form and have it function like a search box (much like
>the Find box in a List of Values (I believe this is called auto
>reducing).
>
>Basically a user starts typing text into a field on a form and the
>entries in a related block jump ahead to the record that closely
>matches what they are typing. If I'm not explaining this right I
>apologize. It's the functionality in the FIND window on an LOV that I
>need assigned to a field in a form.
>
>Is this a predefined trigger of some sort or package that I can call?
>
>Thanks a bunch for the help. This one's really got me.
>
>Paul Piotrowski
>Paul.Piotrowski_at_riag.com
Received on Wed Jun 16 1999 - 03:16:48 CDT