There are at least 10 million touch typists, who slow down every time they
reach for a mouse that would disagree with you. You have to be able to type
in a box to use the auto-expand property. For my money, this is definitely a
feature.
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Arvin Meyer
onsite_at_esinet.net
Jim McCusker wrote in message <3739D8F5.527A45E9_at_iname.com>...
>Arvin Meyer wrote:
>>
>> Jim McCusker wrote in message <3739B5F3.CBE02619_at_iname.com>...
>> > For instance, try to get a native
>> >MS-Access combo-box to not be editable (only being able to select items
>> >from the pull-down). It's not gonna happen.
>>
>> How many do you want?
>>
>> In the property sheet, on the data tab, just select "Limit To List", and
>> choose "Yes".
>
>That is not a complete solution. You can still type in the box iteself,
>which is what I was talking about not being able to do. This was a big
>UI problem on my last big project.
>
>Jim
>--
> Jim McCusker | Class of '99, BA Computer Science & Cognitive Science
> jc012e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect
> ~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
>poorly.~
> ~~Henry
>Spencer
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 16:05:45 CDT
