>The char set-up works fine but, when I enter a numeric code in the operator text box, the combo is displayed in selected highlight, but with no text showing. I f I do it slowly in debug, I can se the combo, remaing unselected, with the correct val in, then it flips to the above.
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>This tells me that the value that you are assigning to the combo box cannot be found in its internal list.
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>Did you initialize the combo's value property to 0 in the property sheet and did you set its BoundTo property to .T. ?

Hi Marcia

THanks

I didn't assign an init. value to the combo, but it IS bound, to thisform.cOpCode.

However, initialising it to 0 had no effect.

(Neither had I initialised the other combo's value to "" though)

Interestingly, following the method via debug I see verything happen as should, and the combo displays the correct value, at the:

  With .cboOperators
    .Value = This.value
  EndWith 

line, then I follow the code to the end of the method. As soon as the last line has been executed, and it leaves the method, THEN the damn combo clears. Beats the hell out of me!