>Is it possible to have different colors for items in a drop-down list?
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>My idea is that for the items which are no longer available that I'd color them forecolor=RED and anythign else available as BLUE.

You can disable certain items by adding '\' (mild) or '\]' (hard). For example, Combobox.Additem('\]noavail') will show 'noavail' as disabled and user won't be able to access it.