Hi all,

I don't seem to have occasion to use a lot of combo boxes and they always seem to take more work to get going - I need some understanding on them...

Firstly: on a form, after I append a blank, I want to set a default value for a combo box. Should I a) update the view field that it is bound to or b) stuff the control with the value to be found (they both seem to work but wondering if one is better than the other or does it matter)

Secondly: this combo gets it's rows from an array that is 5 columns and a few rows wide; first column is the display (a name) and second column is an ID number for the user (numeric); so I have it bound to the 2nd column and the control source of that is a numeric field in a view; that worked on an edit right off but was having trouble when I defaulted to a value on an append blank (the control would not display the name that it was supposed to default to).

I got this working by changing "BoundTo" to .T. - but I find the help quite confusing - I just wanted to know why this setting was ncessary and what it was doing. Can anyone explain to me what this means and/or what it is doing?

Finally, when I check the control's properties at run time, List and ListItem are always empty character and ListIndex and ListItemID are numeric and are set to the row contained in the array (numeric). If I want to access the other columns in the array (cols 3 and 4 contain birthdate etc), should I used ListIndex or ListItemID to access them (or does it not matter if the list is static).

Thanks,
Albert Gostick