>>I just made a form and placed a combobox and a textbox in it. I ran the form, >selected an itme in he combo and tabbed to the textbox. The combo did change >to disabled colors. There must be some code somewhere that is disabling the >combobox.
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>Hi Jim,
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>Sorry I probably didn't explain this properly, my combo box is initially disabled and is intended to display a field from the database within the container on my form. As I skip through records I show the contents of the field in the text region of the control by setting the control's value property to the contents of the field. It's within the text region I want to set background and foreground colour properties when the control is diabled..... much like the textbox control. When I set the disabled background/foreground colour properties the control still shows the contents of the field in standard disabled colours being black on dark grey.
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>Thanks,
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>Don

Don,

Try the DisabledItemForecolor and the DisabledItemBackcolor properties.