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>>dear bonnie when you click on the comboxbox for the first time the
>dropdown method goes off so you can set a propertie to .t.
>when you close the combobox the clickevent goes off so
>you can set the propertie to .f.
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>David, Does the click event happen even if you use the keyboard to close the dropdown, such as alt+uparrow?
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>Bonnie, could you give me your combobox keypress code? I am getting really bizarre results when I downarrow to the next row of the grid.

Brenda,
How many items you have in the combo? It seems to me that the behaviour you want to get can be achieved by using not combo, but right-click shortcut menu.