Thanks John, and like I said before, I've emulated pretty much every single aspect of it and still mine won't work. But anyway, thanks for the effort and good luck.

Gil

>OK, Gil.....I'll reverse engineer it and get back to you.
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>>John,
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>>Hi, in order to make it really simple; if you run the Tastrade sample that comes with VFP 5.0, log in and go to the 'order entry' section. Once in there, click on the 'NEW' order icon, then click on the description field on the grid; this will show a pick list of all the products available. Once an item is selected, it'll bring product information such as price. This is the function that I'd like to replicate this in my program, but I haven't been able so far.
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>>Thanks
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>>Gil.
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>>>Maybe it's the fact that I'm no medication having an emergency root canal (*ouch*) over the weekend, but I'm still a bit confused. You are selecting a product by description in column 1 via a combo box. There are additional columns in the grid for description, quantity. I am confused as to the "Whole product list pick list...." Is this a child of the product you selected bia the description?
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>>>I'm sorry that I'm having such a problem conceptualizing it. Again, I invite you to email it to me.
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>>>>John, thanks for your interest; here it is:
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>>>>I want to be able to have the order line items in a grid on a form, where the first column of the grid is the product description; when I click on any item on this first column, I want to have have a pick list popup and show me the whole product list on the product table. Once the item is selected, it pulls in the price of the item and the second column prompts the user for a quantity, which is a field of the line item table. The order line item file is buffered and the product list is brought up via SQL-SELECT. So far my lists does all this except that it doesn't hold the description on the grid field when it's selected and the field is abandoned.
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>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>Gil
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>>>>>Gil:
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>>>>>Email me the problem.....I'm kinda confused by what you're trying to do but I'll be glad to do some code-humpin...
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>>>>>John
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>>>>>>I'm not really storing the description, the only values that I'm storing are the product code and product price in my line item file. What I need is to have the combobox bring the value(description) of the product code and populate a line in the grid when I pulled that order, and whenever a select a new value (for new orders)from the combobox, the item I select should stay on the grid line and not disappear as it has been doing.
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>>>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>>>Gil
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>>>>>>>Gil ---
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>>>>>>>This *may be* due to an incompatibility between the control source and the the bound data source. I've gotten that when I was selecting a .. lets say ... 50 character value and trying to store it to a 30 char value.....
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>>>>>>>It appears to select OK but shows blank....is that the symptom?
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>>>>>>>John
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>>>>>>>>Hi, were you able to fix the problem you had with using a combobox(dropdown list) in a grid? I have the exact same problem you had at the beginning of the thread and I wonder if you could share the recipe on you got it to work. Whenever I select a product from the list it flashes for about a milisecond and then disappears, giving me the blue background, although I'm able to get the information I need from it such as price and code value, but the description won't stay.
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