How To Determine if DBCombo MatchEntry Property is Read- only
Article ID: 154816
Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q154816
SUMMARY
This article discusses how to determine whether the MatchEntry property of
the DBCombo is read-only. When setting the MatchEntry property of a DBCombo
control to "1 - Extended Matching"(at run time or design time), Visual
Basic may report that the "Property is read-only."
MORE INFORMATION
Extended Matching may be used only when the DBCombo control has the Style
property set to "2 - Dropdown List." This restriction is not documented.
Additionally, there is a bug in the Custom Properties dialog of the 32-bit
DBCombo control. The Custom Properties dialog reports "Property is read
only" if both the style is changed to "2 - Dropdown List," the MatchEntry
property is changed to "1 - Extended Matching," and then the changes are
applied. This error is not reported if the style is changed and applied
first followed by changing and applying the MatchEntry property.
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