>>>>>I have some dropdowns near the bottom of forms. When activated, they drop down below the Win 95 task bar so that user can't see all of them, otherwise they fit. Is there a way to tell the combo to drop up instead?
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>>>>set the taskbar for not always on top should do the trick.
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>>>I thought of that, but we're talking 50 or so users here, and I'm not allowed to monkey with their settings...the only idea I've come up with so far is to add one more dummy row to the combo so that it hits the window border and reverses direction to a 'drop up', but I'm still wondering if there's a way to change direction by code?
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>>How about increasing the number of lines in the list ?
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>I think you mean what I've actually done, is to check to see how many rows are in the list. If there are x rows so that the xth row is hidden from user by taskbar, add one more row (either blank or something else). Then the dropdown 'drops' upward instead. Is that what you mean?
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>I'm a little surprised no one else seems to have bumped into this problem...it's something to keep in mind when creating apps.

Here's a wild guess...

Can you change the height of the list items? This could still
trigger the reversal you've mentioned but, that way there's
no bogus data in the list.

HTH

Larry Moody
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