Thanks Al. It looks like VFPs internal AutoComplete feature will work for what i want to do.

>>Has anyone developed an intellisense-type data entry feature that displays a popup-list of "candidate" entries to select from as the user types in a name, address, city, state, etc on a VFP form?
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>I think these guys have something like that: http://www.google.com
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>Seriously, you can roll your own variation of incremental search. Actually, in your example city and state could be regular incremental search.
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>One approach for name and address would be to combine incremental search results and substring search; maybe show incremental results near the top and substring results below in a visually separated section.
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>It's been a while since I coded something like that but ISTR the performance is pretty good on reasonably modern hardware even with substring searches as long as you're working against a local table or cursor.