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Browse Dialog

Ger Cannoll — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:19:57 GMT

I've started to use the Browse Dialog and its working fine.

Can the following be done:

1. On the form in which the Browse Button is , I have a Text Box

2. I want the user to enter Text in here

3. Then Call the Browse Dialog (With the TextBox.Text as a parameter) and get it to do the search, so that the results browse is displayed

(In other words , I want the user to be able to enter the text to be searched on the Calling screen rather than the Browse Screen and get the Search done right away)

RE: Browse Dialog

Trent L. Taylor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:19:57 GMT

Ah...I will file that in the back of my mind for next time ;) Glad it worked! :)

RE: Browse Dialog

Ger Cannoll — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:24:17 GMT

Hi Trent.

That has worked great... I use C# but was able to translate the code.

Many thanks

RE: Browse Dialog

Trent L. Taylor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:11:19 GMT

Yes. First, you can manually launch the browse dialog by calling the "ShowDialog()" on the browse dialog class. Second, you can initialize search values a number of ways. But in this case, I would just use the InitialValue property in the SearchFields collections. So to combine the two and force the search to happen automatically, you would do this:

[codesnippet]Me.BrowseDialog1.SearchFields("FieldName").InitialValue = "MySearchValue"
Me.BrowseDialog1.ShowDialog(True)[/codesnippet]

From what I recall, you were using VB.NET. If not let me know and I can post a C# sample if necessary.