>I still think you're trying to make it more complicated than it is. :)
>Each year has 12 month so there's nothing special about any year in that respect. IOW, there's no relationship between picking a month and picking a year.

...unless we mean to pick the months in which we have data (just something I was working on this week), in which case

	SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(d) AS nYear;
		,	MONTH(d) AS nMonth, CMONTH(d) AS cMo	;
		,	SPACE(24) AS cYM	;
		,	{} AS dfrom, {} AS dTo	;
		FROM crsWhereWeHaveDAsDateField;
		WHERE NOT EMPTY(d);
		INTO CURSOR crsByMonth READWRITE ;
		ORDER BY 1,2

	SCAN
		lcYM=cMo-STR(nYear,5,0)
		ld1=DATE(nYear, nMonth, 1)
		ld2=GOMONTH(ld1,1)-1
		REPLACE cYM WITH lcYM	;
			, dfrom WITH ld1	;
			, dTo WITH ld2
	ENDSCAN

...and then the string from the cYM column is fed to the combo, and the dFrom and dTo fields contain the first and last day of each month.