Using VFP5.0. I'm using a multi-page PageFrame form with several ComboBoxes, both separately and in Grids. I am populating the ComboBoxes using fields in free tables. I have two proplems with these ComboBoxes:

1)If the user enters data directly into the box instead of selecting one of the dropdown choices no data is saved to the table.(Isn't this suppose to be the advantage of a ComboBox over a ListBox?)

2)If I add new records to the free table only those entries of a limited length will appear in the ComboBox. For Example: say a free table is a list of countries in which the character length is 30, the initial population has countries with actual lengths of less than 15; now let's say you want to add "The United Arab Emerites" which has a length of 24. You append the entry to the table where it appears and is saved. However, when you try to use the "Country" ComboBox only a blank highlighted box appears. If you shorten the entry to "UAE" or something less than 15 characters, the entry appears as a selection in the ComboBox and will be saved in the table the ComboBox is designed to populate.

Any help on either of these issues will be greatly appreciated.
TIA --lincoln