>Fabio,
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>Thank you for your help! I justed re-tried deleting items from the auto-complete dropdown and it works like you described. I'm not sure why this didn't work for me before - perhaps I had my autocomplete table opened readonly in another VFP session?
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>Per you comment about "Capture Autocomplete hwnd and control it with OS API", is this something that I could use Spy++ to look for and then do a Windows SendMessage() or PostMessage() call to have the dropdown's hwnd move and resize to a specific position, followed by a SendMessage() or PostMessage() to resize the dropdown itself? You're right, this seems complicated and I'm unclear whether such a solution would look ugly ... delay while timer detected dropdown, followed by move and resize of the autocomplete dropdown after this delay?
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>Malcolm

You can use BINDEVENT(0,WM_NCCREATE,oWindowsMonitor,"WinMessage")
for catch when the AutoComplete window popup is created ( after AUTOCOMPLETE_ACCESS call );
when VFP bindmanager call WinMessage you have the AutoCompleteWindow.hwnd as hwnd parameter.

Not simple but VFP don't expose a global Constant like _AUTOCOMPLETE_HWND;
and it is not easy to avoid the C0005 crash.
I use something as this for implement a Combobox AfterDropDownClose,
but i'm not sure that it is 100% C0005 free.