I just figured out that VFP comboboxes are kind of a kludge: the combo's drop down list will immediately close upon the very first keystroke *if* the mouse pointer happens to be positioned anywhere within the dropdown list! Now what genious designed that "feature" :)

Seriously, I see lots of complaints about the combobox's behavior. Hasn't MSoft had enough time to fix this? I'm using VFP 6 (SP5), but I'll bet it still is quirky in VFP 9, right?

I thought waiting all these years to finally get into learning VFP would have the benefit of bugs like this being squashed. Looks like some things never change :)

I wonder if there is a whitepaper that documents many of these bugs/quirks for newbies so we can avoid spending countless hours pulling our hair out? Anybody know of such a document?

On a positive note, VFP does seem extremely powerful. It's a big leap for an old-school Foxbase/FP2.6 programmer to move to VFP, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the long run. But will I have any hair left ? :)