>>At that point the "\" or "\]" is no longer at the front of the value -- FoxPro apparently says, "OK, I'll disable this, but you'll never be able to tell it got disabled from now on..."
Thanks for that gem re the removed \ : something to remember!
2 suggestions:
1) Recently I saw somebody's post with a combo based on a POPUP. This allowed different fonts etc for each row, but also the SET SKIP to disable rows, will not alter source values.
2) A (Disabled) or (Closed) appended to the display text which emphasizes why they can't pick it, and is easily identified in code.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
