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What is DBMemo.AutoDisplay for?

edited July 2001 in General
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

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  • edited July 2001
    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


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