I'll post you a very simple form I made now. It works in version 8 and 9
and I guess it would work also in lower versions...
It's nothing special, as you can see, just show that what you expect to work ... WORKS :-)
Let me know
Alessio

>Hi Alessio,
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>I quite agree, it should :(
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>No, it's not when dropped down.
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>I'd like to indicate to the user that a particular record is deleted / not deleted as soon as they click the DeleteButton, and it would be nice if this code could be encapsulated to the control, so one does not have to write it all over the place.
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>Similar code on a textbox refresh works fine, in fact I just copied and pasted the code from a textbox.
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>And, as I stated in my origial post, yes - the code does execute, it just doesn't change the color of the combobox.
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>BR
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>Peter