>>Already tried that, no change. But now here's the kicker. If I pull just the firstname, lastname and cboSelectPerson (the combobox) fields off the form to a separate form (running the same code), it works.
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>>On the Original form I've tried:
>>Requery - no change
>>setting the RowSource to '' before setting everything - no change.
>>changing the name of the combobox - no change
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>>I've walked the code and watched the underlying cursor get populated, so I know there are data to go into the silly thing
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>>I've got a combobox acting like there's an empty cursor behind it. click on the down arrow and nothing happens
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>PMFJI, I didn't follow the thread and don't know the details.
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>"click on the down arrow and nothing happens"
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>Maybe there is something preventing you from clicking (a transparent container, shape in front or not enabled). Make sure it is enabled and also you can't drop down by keyboard (alt+space).

also along similar line of thought, checking to make sure combobox can get focus might be a good idea too.

Other things that might be a good idea to check -- if the control in question is based on a subclass of the combobox control, you might want to check the code in the parent class to make sure there isn't anything that could be interfering/interacting with your code.

Another thing that might be worth checking on -- make sure that you're up-to-date on patches -- I do recall there were some releases of VFP that had some bugs that went away as soon as you updated VFP to the latest release (we had in one case at customer site where the IT guy installed an older runtime library, and replacing that with a later release fixed a number of mysterious problems).