I have a form with a list box. I want to disable some of the items in the listbox. So I put a backslash in the front of all the items I need to disable. My code looks something like

SELECT somefield FROM sometable WHERE conditions INTO CURSOR somecursor READWRITE
SCAN
    IF disable_condition
        REPLACE somefield WITH "\" + somefield
    ENDIF
ENDSCAN

WITH myListBox
    .RowSourceType = 2 && alias
    .RowSource = "somecoursor"
ENDWITH

When the listbox displays, it shows the backslash in the item and none of the items are disabled.

Question 1: Is this expected behavior when using an alias? If so, I didn't find it documented (although I could easily have missed it).

Second Try - Using an array
I added an array as a form property and modified the code to be

SELECT somefield FROM sometable WHERE conditions INTO CURSOR somecursor READWRITE
SCAN
    IF disable_condition
        REPLACE somefield WITH "\" + somefield
    ENDIF
ENDSCAN

DIME thisform.aMyListBox[RECCOUNT("somecursor")]  && Copy to array only copies to the current length of the array
COPY TO ARRAY thisform.aMyListBox
WITH myListBox
    .RowSourceType = 5 && array
    .RowSource = "thisform.aMyListBox"
ENDWITH

Now all the items I want to be disabled show in the disabled color. If you double-click on a disabled item nothing will happen.

But........If I click on an item and then use the arrow keys the disabled items are not bypassed. Pressing the Enter key while
pointing to a disabled item will fire the DblClick code, allowing the user to get around the item being disabled.

I can easily get around this

**In ListBox DblClick code
IF thisform.aMyListBox[this.ListIndex] = "\"
    RETURN 0
ENDIF

.....rest of code

but...

Question 2: Is this correct behavior for disabled items in the sense that disabled is only supposed to apply to mouse clicks?

Thanks...........Rich