What is DBMemo.AutoDisplay for?

rbuser

Hi

I have never used this property, but a user has asked what it's for. When I
turn it off I get the same data in every record?

Thanks
Edward Shave

digitalmetaphors

It was designed to help speed up design time of a report by not loading the
field from the database. From the help file:

Declaration
property AutoDisplay: Boolean;

Description
The value of the AutoDisplay property determines whether to automatically
display the contents of a BLOB in a database field in a TppDBMemo.
If AutoDisplay is True (the default value), the component automatically
displays new data when the underlying BLOB field changes (such as when
moving to a new record).
If AutoDisplay is False, the control clears whenever the underlying BLOB
field changes

Note: You might want to change the value of AutoDisplay to False if the
automatic loading of BLOB fields seems to take too long.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors