Contributor: SWAG SUPPORT TEAM
Filling dblistboxs and dbcomboboxs
Most of Delphi's data aware components will populate
themselves after they are wired up to a open dataset. However
DbListboxs and DbComboboxs do not display this characteristic.
These two components are not for displaying your datasets, but
filling them. Use of these components is straight forward.
When you update your table, the value of the DbListbox or
DbCombobox will be posted in the appropriate field.
Filling the DbCombobox or DbListbox the same as filling normal
comboboxs or listboxes. The lines of text in a listbox or
combobox are really a tstring list. The "Items" property of
the given component holds this list. Use the "Add" method for
adding items to a tstring. If you want to use data types other
than strings they must be converted at run time. If your list
has a blank line at the end, consider setting the
"IntegralHeight" property to True.
Filling a DbListbox with 4 lines programmatically might look
similar to this:
DbListbox1.items.add('line one');
DbListbox1.items.add('line two');
DbListbox1.items.add('line three');
DbListbox1.items.add('line four');
Filling a DbListbox at design time requires using the object
inspector. By double clicking on the components "Items"
property, you can bring up the "String List Editor" and input
the desired rows.
Unfortunately, if a combobox is filled this way, there is not
default value. Setting a DbComboboxs "text" property will
achieve this result. (the "text" property is not available in
the object inspector, so it must be set programmatically).
Setting the default value to the first value in the
DbCombobox's list looks like this:
DbCombobox1.text := DbCombobox1.items[0];
Often it is useful to fill a DBListBox from a dataset. This
can be done using loop:
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
with table2 do begin
open;
while not EOF do
begin
DBlistbox1.items.add(FieldByName('name').AsString);
next;
end;
end;
end;