Hi Miker - that's for calling me Mikey ;)

I just ran your code and it is not doing what you describe - mouse in the list area or not. It does do what I described though - that the mouse holds the highlight on a particular record even though the incremental search changes the display value - only if the mouse pointer is in the list area.

>OK, here is the code for my little form with a single combobox control on it. When I run it in VFP6 (SP5), I click on the downarrow to activate the combo's dropdown list. IF the mouse pointer is moved anywhere in the rectangular space used by the list, any keystroke will close the list. OTOH, if the mouse pointer is kept outside the list's region, then it works as one would expect, allowing full incremental searching...
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>PUBLIC oform1
>
>oform1=NEWOBJECT("form1")
>oform1.Show
>RETURN
>
> **************************************************
>*-- Form: form1 (c:\vfp\regional\BadComboBox.scx)
>*-- ParentClass: form
>*-- BaseClass: form
>*-- Time Stamp: 11/18/06 04:32:01 PM
>*
>DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
>
>
> Top = -1
> Left = -1
> DoCreate = .T.
> Caption = "Form1"
> Name = "Form1"
>
>
> ADD OBJECT combo1 AS combobox WITH ;
> RowSourceType = 1, ;
> RowSource = "Aaaaaa,Abaaaa,Acaaaa,Adaaaa", ;
> Height = 24, ;
> Left = 96, ;
> Top = 72, ;
> Width = 100, ;
> Name = "Combo1"
>
>ENDDEFINE
>*
>*-- EndDefine: form1
>**************************************************
>
>
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>>Open a form in the Class Browser and click on View Class Code button. The generated code will be dispalyed in the program editor vindow. You can run it right from there.
>>The code generated this way may not be runnable when there're containers (including grids) on the form. There's ClassBrowserX on VFPx (http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=VFPX&ReleaseId=66) that allows to overcome such limitations.
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>>>So you're saying this is not a well known/documented bug in VFP? I found a UT thread describing the exact same problem. Typical responses, if I recall correctly, were "well, that's the way the combobox object works". I'll try to locate it again and reference it so maybe a consensus can be formed...
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>>>As for pasting exported code, I am not sure how I would do that. I can certainly create a simple form with just a combobox dropdown list object on it and compile. How would I then export the code? Sorry, but I am very new to VFP...
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