>You cannot assign a popup as a rowsource to a combo. I'm sure why, although it appears to work, but the moment you select an item from the list, the list itself seems to desintergrate, or looses items and cannot be regained even with requery.
>BTW my original post showed a listbox as a control, not a combobox.

Mike, i run your code with Combobox change, and it work.

>
>>>Here is an example using a listbox (I have found that this technique does not work with combobox)
>>
>>Why?
>>
>>>

PUBLIC oform1
>>>oform1=CREATEOBJECT("form1")
>>>oform1.Show
>>>RETURN
>>>DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
>>>    Top = 0
>>>    Left = 0
>>>    Height = 238
>>>    Width = 468
>>>    DoCreate = .T.
>>>    Caption = "Form1"
>>>    Name = "Form1"
>>   ADD OBJECT list1 AS Combobox WITH ;
>>>        RowSourceType = 9, ;
>>>        RowSource = "P_list", ;
>>>        Height = 181, ;
>>>        Left = 60, ;
>>>        Top = 24, ;
>>>        Width = 265, ;
>>>        Name = "List1"
>>>    PROCEDURE Load
>>>        PUBLIC P_list
>>>        DEFINE POPUP P_list
>>>        DEFINE BAR 1 OF P_LIST ;
>>>          PROMPT "Item number 1 of the list";
>>>          FONT "Tahoma",14 style "BI";
>>>          COLOR , RGB(255,255,255,192,0,0)
>>>        DEFINE BAR 2 OF P_LIST ;
>>>          PROMPT "Item number 2 of the list";
>>>          FONT "Tahoma",11 style "B"
>>>        DEFINE BAR 3 OF P_LIST ;
>>>          PROMPT "Item number 3 of the list";
>>>          FONT "Arial",9 style "B";
>>>           COLOR , RGB(255,255,255,192,255,0)
>>>    ENDPROC
>>>ENDDEFINE

>>>