ImageCombo Before/After Update

[TheSmileyCoder]

Im trying to have some fun with the imagecombo control, but so far its alot more frustration then it is fun.

From what I have understood I can't tie the imagecombobox directly to a field in a table in the same way I would do with a standard combobox, because what the imagecombobox tries to store is the text property (instead of the key property, however odd that might be)

Therefore I want to store the Key property of the selected item, after it selected. Im therefore looking for a BeforeUpdate in which to "transfer" the selected key value to a hidden field.
Does anyone have a elegant way of doing this? What I have so far is to do this storage in the LostFocus event, but I would like some additional code to run whenever the user has selected an item, and it just looks odd if I run the code when the user clicks somewhere else (I.e. the imagecombo looses focus)

Any suggestions? (And no the imagecombo does not have a built in Before_Update, but im looking for something similar)

If anyone knows a good resource site with imagecombo information, i'd like to know about that too.

[ADezii]

From what I have understood I can't tie the imagecombobox directly to a field in a table in the same way I would do with a standard combobox

The ImageCombo Control has a Control Source Property and as such can be 'Bound' to a Field in a Table as long as that Table is the Record Source of the Form.

[TheSmileyCoder]

Yes, it does have a controlsource, but from what I have experimented with it, it will try to store the TEXT (The text displayed in the combobox) value in the bound field.
So say the imagecombo lets me choose between 3 people, all 3 of which is of course in a seperate table, with an Autonumber primary key.
I would like to store the primary key of the person, not the persons name.

[ADezii]

The following Code, placed in the Click() Event of an ImageCombo Control, will return the Key Value of the Item Selected. Is this what you are looking for?

Private Sub ImageCombo1_Click()
  MsgBox Me![ImageCombo1].SelectedItem.Key
End Sub

[TheSmileyCoder]

Thank you very much, that worked.
I didn't consider using that as it was not one of the options given when looking at the Events tab of the combobox's properties.