Thanks Borislav. I have made a work-around in the meantime and will investigate further your solution. Thanks.

>>>>>>>>>>Hi All,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Forgotten - is there a way to set the max width of the dropdown list of a combobox?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>ColumnWidths
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Hi Borislav, i tried that but it didnt work. My row source is wide and extends beyond my ColumnWidths value. Do I need to set something else?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>How many columns you have and what width you want :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1 column, 300 pixels which is the same as the combobox itself.
>>>>>
>>>>>What happens when you set ColumnWidths to 300?
>>>>
>>>>The same as if I leave it empty - the dropdown list extends far to the right (reflecting the underlying 120 character field to which it is bound).
>>>
>>>You want it smaller or wider?
>>>BTW you should set Columns to 1 also :-)
>>
>>I would like the dropdown area to be the same width as the combobox itself i.e. 300 pixels.
>
>
>Christian has the answer:
>

>oForm = CREATEOBJECT("form1")
>oForm.Show(1)
>
>
>DEFINE CLASS form1 AS form
>
>
>	DoCreate = .T.
>	Caption = "Form1"
>	Name = "Form1"
>
>
>	ADD OBJECT combo1 AS combobox WITH ;
>		Height = 24, ;
>		Left = 9, ;
>		Top = 15, ;
>		Width = 294, ;
>		Name = "Combo1"
>
>
>	PROCEDURE Init
>		thisform.Combo1.RowSourceType= 6 
>		thisform.Combo1.RowSource = "crsTest.Fld1"
>		thisform.Combo1.ColumnCount = 2
>		thisform.Combo1.ColumnLines = .f.
>		thisform.Combo1.ColumnWidths = TRANSFORM(thisform.Combo1.Width-50)+",0" && Play with values here
>	ENDPROC
>
>
>	PROCEDURE Load
>		CREATE CURSOR crsTest (Fld1 C(120))
>		FOR lnFor = 1 TO 20
>		    INSERT INTO crsTest VALUES(REPLICATE("A",lnFor))
>		NEXT
>	ENDPROC
>
>
>ENDDEFINE
>*
>*-- EndDefine: form1
>**************************************************
>