This solves it:

See UT Message # 1114822




>I'm having a frustrating problem with what should be a simple use of a combobox.
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>The problem is that the combobox does not show the currently selected value (displayvalue) properly -- either when it first comes up (where its controlsource is already assigned a value that matches an entry in its rowsource), or when I click on an item in the dropdown.
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>The crsr_Employees table is simple -- field 'name' is character, field 'empidnum' is numeric.
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>(Note that even though the item clicked on does not show up correctly in the combobox, the correct value is saved correctly in the controlsource.)
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>BTW -- there is NO method or event code for this combobox -- plain old vanilla stuff.
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>Help!
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	ADD OBJECT updatetable1.cntupd.cntedit.combo1 AS combobox WITH ;
>		FontSize = 10, ;
>		BoundColumn = 2, ;
>		ColumnCount = 2, ;
>		ColumnWidths = "200,0", ;
>		RowSourceType = 6, ;
>		RowSource = "crsr_Employees.name, empidnum", ;
>		ControlSource = "Thisform.oBusObj.oData.empidnum", ;
>		Height = 24, ;
>		Left = 536, ;
>		TabIndex = 13, ;
>		Top = 38, ;
>		Width = 168, ;
>		BoundTo = .T., ;
>		Name = "Combo1"