unbound dropbox list

Hello rjkantor

ComboBox1.Items.Add('Red'), ......; is the way, but if there are many items to add,
you will avoid component Combobox redraw each time you add,

For me, when I wad wotking with Delphi 7 (damn it now I use windows 10) I used this code :

ComboBox1.Items.BeginUpdate;
ComboBox1.Items.Clear;
ComboBox1.Items.Add('Un');
ComboBox1.Items.Add('Deux');
ComboBox1.Items.Add('Trois');
ComboBox1.Items.Add('Quatre');
ComboBox1.Items.EndUpdate;

It worked fine also with ListBox1.Items and Memo1.Lines.Add
I've not yet tested with MVD

JB

It depends how you use this ComboBox, please provide more details and attach your project.

Attach your project I will check it.

Hello,

sorry to ask again, but i seem to have a problem when using this method in multiple forms.

I have this:

procedure Form1_OnShow (Sender: TObject; Action: string);
begin
   Form1.ComboBox1.Items.Add('Male');
   Form1.ComboBox1.Items.Add('Female');
end;

This works on Form1, now i have a second form Form2, i try to use the same code for a combobox in Form2:

procedure Form2_OnShow (Sender: TObject; Action: string);
begin
   Form2.ComboBox1.Items.Add('Item one');
   Form2.ComboBox1.Items.Add('Item two');
end;

And this does not work on Form2, i tested with other forms / other comboboxes but the code only works on Form1.

Any ideas?

you have a mistake somewhere

Hello Dmitry,
Thanks for checking. Ok, so actually i am trying to save the value to the database, so i understand i am doing it wrong. I have a lot of forms with a lot of comboboxes but the values of the comboboxes will not change often, so thats why it would be easy to 'hardcode' it in the dropdown itself so the selected string would be entered in the table. However, almost each form has different comboboxes with different values to select. Right now, i am 1.) making a table 2.) designing a form to add values to this table 3.) add relationship to the tables, just to fill out some comboboxes like "Gender: male or female?" of a list of countries for example. This is kind of tedious. Should i make the tables directly in the sqlite database through a sqlite management app or am i doing it right as i am doing it now? Is there an easier way?

Thanks