You can set it in the Property Sheet, I don't see why not.

>I have normally set up a dropdown list box by making an array from a picklist table. I like this way of doing it. Here's what I have set in the Properties of the DropDown List box: (This one works just fine)
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>The name of the control is cboMill.
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>BoundColumn = 2
>BoundTo = .T.
>RowSource = ThisForm.aMills
>RowSourceType = 5 (Array)
>Style = 2 (DropDown List)
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>In the Control's INIT:
>cboMill = "This.ListIndex = 1"
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>In the FORM's INIT:
>ThisForm.cboMill.ControlSource="Certs.Mill_ID" (This is what I think I forgot to add.)
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>I sometimes wonder why we cannot set the SourceControl on the DropDownList object? Why is it that we have to set this manually in the FORM"s INIT, rather than in the control itself? Or, am I mistaken?
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>The following is the code which creates the array from the MILLS table.
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>SELECT ID + "|" + ALLTRIM(Name), ID ;
>	FROM Mills ;
>	ORDER BY ID ;
>	INTO ARRAY .aMills
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