Hi John,

The combo's and listboxes in VFP5 can handle larger dataset more efficiently than VFP3. If Tim is looking for anything till 5000 records it should be ok.

I definitely agree that you should limit the number of records coming into combos. It is an interface issue though. Personally, I would stick with 200-250 max, otherwise I'd use a modal form which will provide more searching & filtering capibilities for data selection.

One another thing to note is that if you use AddItem() to add records to the Combo or ListBox, things are going to be much much slower and this happens in VFP3, VFP5 and even VFP6.

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>IMHO no. I've had situations where I had to abandon combos with lots of records. Besides, it's tough on the user to find what they're looking for if there are too many records.