>Any ideas why it could happen:
>I have a dropdown list box on my form and a list portion
>of the object (recordsource) bound to the alias.
>When I click on the object to drop the list down and try to select something from the list to get it ito the textbox portion of the object in about one half of the cases the old value of the box remains the same after I have selected a different value from the list. Sometimes I need to select 4-5 times a new value to get it into the box.
>It is happening just in one project, all others are fine.
>If I change dropdown list to combobox - the problem is dissapearing. It is not a case in VFP3.0 but in VFP5.
>All I need is just an advice - what could be a potential
>source of the problem.


I am using VFP 5 and have the same problems with dropdown lists. I have not found a work around. Here is my best description of the problems I've encountered:

1. Selecting an item from a dropdown list with the mouse, "breaks" the control so that subsequent attempts to select items with the keyboard or mouse are unreliable. However, clicking on the down arrow fixes the problem -- at least for keyboard use. If you operate the dropdown lists with only the keyboard, there are no problems.

2. If you click on an item on the dropdown list, the mouse (down or up?) event is received not only by the dropdown list, but also by any object that was underneath the dropdown list at the same position as the mouse pointer!