>>What about GotFocus() event? Does it work?
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>No,
>the combo is defaulted to an empty value at first.
>If the user simply goes through the controls with TAB, he shouldn't wait for the combo to be populated.

I see, you're right.

>Checking inside keypress() and mousedown() seems to work, I was just wondering if there was a single point to be checked.
>As I wrote to Gregory, in this particular case, the dropdown() event seems to be affected by the "chasing its own tail" syndrome :-)
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>>For the message you probably can set DisplayValue - not tested idea...
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>Will try.
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>Thanks.