No, I lied. I wrote that message in the evening when I was too tired to think. The array is a property of the combobox. The combo is completely self-contained. It works when I drop it by itself on a form. It works in the container (two instances of it) when I drop the container on an .scx form It is just when I put the container in this form class that it fails. The form class (which naturally is designed to add another level of complexity) does something that makes FoxPro think that the array is a single character variable rather than an array.

The form class is part of a framework and it is impractical to try add its complexity in piece by piece. My next step is probably to change the rowsourcetype to 3- SQL statement and see if it will behave better.

I don't think it is a scope issue anyway because the combo is seeing the variable, it just is not acknowledging it as an array.

Thanks for the thought.

Pamela