>>I am using a combobox in a grid. I have it linked to an employee table, boundto=.t., boundcolumn=2, rowsource=a cursor with two columns (col1 is the name, col 2 is the emp number), controlsource is a table field with an integer employee number. When I activate and pulldown the combobox, the name that was there is not selected in the pulldown, the first item is selected instead. Further, when I select an item the name doesn't show in the display, it remains blank until the combobox loses focus. Any ideas as to what is happening here? I the same combobox on the form and I am not having these problems with it. In fact I copied the combobox to the grid, just to make sure they were the same! Oh I should also tell you that the column.sparse=.f. and the combobox is the current control, I left the textbox in the column though.
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>>Please, help!
>>TIA!!!
>>tc
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>May I make unrelated suggestion? Could you use right-click menu instead of combo in grid? It works more reliable, especially when you have integer foreign keys.
>I mean, that you still show 'name' from lookup table in grid.column.textbox (not editable) and invoke shortcut menu from textbox.rightclick event.

Edward,
Thank you so much for your quick response!
Sounds like a workable solution, but I have never done this before. I assume I would have to do some table manipulation, such as a SQL update upon menu selection, update the textbox display, etc. It sounds like a bit of work. Is there no way to get the combobox working properly? I have had this problem intermittently on forms as well as in grids. If not, do you have an example of how to do the popup menu thing?

Thanks again,
tc