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Q149094: HOWTO: Determine the Contents of a Cell in a DBGrid Control

Article: Q149094
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbGrpDSVBDB
Last Modified: 11-JAN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition for Windows, version 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, version 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Control Creation Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 5.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Standard Edition, 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 16-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0 
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SUMMARY
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This article shows how to determine the contents of a selected cell in a DBGrid
control.

MORE INFORMATION
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The DBGrid control allows you to display the contents of a recordset or a table.
With this method, you can take the data from a cell in the MouseUp event of the
DBGrid control.

This example uses a DBGrid control bound to Data control. The Data control uses
the BIBLIO.MDB database for information. In the MouseUp event of the DBGrid
control, the column and row positions of the cell are assigned to an integer
variable. A bookmark is then set using the row position. Executing the CellValue
method on the Columns collection of the DBGrid control determines the contents
of the cell. Those contents then appear on a TextBox control.

Sample Code
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1. Start Visual Basic. If it is already running, on the File menu, click New
  Project. Add a DBGrid, TextBox, and a Data control to the Form1 form. Set the
  following controls to the specified properties:

  a. Data control DatabaseName property: <path> BIBLIO.MDB RecordSource
     property: Titles

  b. DBGrid control DataSource property to Data1.

2. Copy the following code sample to the Form1 code window:

        Option Explicit
        Dim igColumn As Integer
        Dim igRow As Integer
        Dim vargBookmark As Variant

        Private Sub DBGrid1_MouseUp(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, _
         X As Single, Y As Single)
           igColumn = DBGrid1.ColContaining(X)   'Set the Cell Column number
           igRow = DBGrid1.RowContaining(Y)      'Set the Cell Row number

           vargBookmark = DBGrid1.RowBookmark(igRow) 'Set Bookmark Value

           'Show the contents of the cell in a textbox
           Text1.Text = DBGrid1.Columns(igColumn).CellValue(vargBookmark)

        End Sub

3. On the Run menu, click Start or press the F5 key. Click on a cell and note
  that the contents is shown in the TextBox.

Additional query words: kbVBp400 kbVBp600 kbdse kbDSupport kbVBp kbVBp500

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Issue type        : kbhowto

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