Naomi, Fabio
Thanks for your reply.

I just added a textbox over teh combobox having the column that the customer need to see then show the combobox when they are in edit mode. working fine.

Mo

>>Using VFP8. I have a combobox with SQL statement rowsource. it is select col1, col2 ..
>>
>>I want the combobox to show col2 when it is closed but to show col1,col2 when it is oppened (dropped) in that order.
>>It only shows col1 when it is closed. I thought the setting the DisplayValue will fix this problem but I can not even set the DisplayValue.
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>>So, is there a way to show col2 when the combobox is closed and show col1, col2 when it is open???
>>
>>Thanks
>>Mo
>
>the combobox is not efficient, but if you satisfy yourself
>( too hard to add a displaycolum baseclass's property !)
>

>PUBLIC oform1
>
>oform1=NEWOBJECT("form1")
>oform1.Show
>
>DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
>
>	ADD OBJECT combo1 AS combobox WITH ;
>		BoundColumn = 2, ;
>		ColumnCount = 3, ;
>		ColumnWidths = "0", ; && or "0,100,100"
>		RowSourceType = 3, ;
>		RowSource = "SELECT F2,F1,F2 FROM BYBY INTO CURSOR COMBO", ;
>		Left = 120, ;
>		Style = 2, ;
>		Top = 36, ;
>		Width = 205, ;
>		BoundTo = .T., ;
>		Name = "Combo1"
>
>
>	PROCEDURE Load
>		CREATE CURSOR byby (f1 c(20) DEFAULT PADC('_'+TRANS(RECCOUNT()),16,'1'),f2 c(30) DEFAULT PADC('_'+TRANS(RECCOUNT()),16,'2'))
>		FOR k=1 TO 30
>			APPEND BLANK
>		NEXT
>	ENDPROC
>
>
>ENDDEFINE
>