You might want to trying playing with that SPARSE property.....

>I am using a combo box on a grid to select items from a alias
> most the time when the combo box is in the open mode I select items
> and they are displayed in the combo box when I close it. However once
> in a while the text does not display when the combo box is closed, However when the combo box looses focus the
>text is displayed. It is almost like the closed combo box is not being refreshed all the time.
>Has anyone else experienced this...
>
> John G.