>we have several combo boxes on a data entry screen. several of these are filled on the fly based on another entry. our problem is that occasionally when you open the box and select an item, part of the box stays on the screen hiding other fields. any ideas? (besides switching to vfp)

Its a bug in VB. If you've got more than 3 combos on one screen, being done on the fly, the last combo doesn't get refresh properly. It might be fixed in VB4.01