I am thinking about this and may go with a DropDown List Box for the Left Eye and one for the RIght Eye. But, you get so many people's own ideas of what colors their eyes are, so how do you make that fit? It mgiht be best to let the user type in "whatever" the user wants there.

Cecil

>Last time I had descriptive colors (i.e. not integers, but text such as is used in the app's domain), I used a simple textbox with autocomplete set. And whatever they (me, that is, since I used that app) put in there, would be offered. Turned out to be quite a limited list, even with color1/color2 (e.g. beige/brown, yellow/orange), and a very simple solution. Sure, there was no lookup and no integrity enforced, but then with what people call colors, you may not want to try to enforce any rules. It's all too subjective.

>Specially for eye color - I've read somewhere that there are no green eyes among humans. What we call green is sort of grayish-olive-ish. Any plant with such a color would wilt, suffocated by lack of photosynthesis. Still, your users will want to enter green - so let them. If your business rules allow that, though.