>Hi Frank,
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>Thanks for joining the thread:)
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>>I'm pretty sure that people have duplicated the VFP Combo Box functionality with a grid. This gives you the best of both worlds as grids can handle much more data than combos. Maybe you can find an existing control or create one yourself?
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>You are possibly right. I am looking for a dropdown-list style of combo. You are right that I could possibly build a combination of other widgets.
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>Were you thinking of the one of a plain old read-only text-box and some kind of smart display of a ad hoc grid at mousedown time ? It is way above my current skills, I should admit.
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>I am a bit weary to enter that course of event and even have excluded the use of smart activex stuff in order to keep the demand of this legacy UI with reasonable control. We wish the UI side of this oldish win32 app to last...
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>The simpler the better in these days for the UI side as far as VFP is concerned (this not exactly QT5...). But I am still exploring all the tricks associated to the combobox which has become the key widget for most interactions.
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>Most the comboboxes we use now have small associated pictures that are set in a highly dynamically way. This big combo I mentionned - the only big one - is the one and only combo with no pictorial support. And i was trying to implement some kind of low-bandwith visual clues. But yep, that's out of VFP scope. We will do without pictures... Once we move to more recent GUI - QT is indeed springing to mind - we will look forward to such things:)
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>Daniel

Maybe you can find one that someone has done already. I'm unfortunately very busy (which is nice) so can't look for an example or try to put one together for you