>>>>Is there an easy way to populate a combo box with the contents of a directory? So then whatever file the user clicks on will be captured to a var for future reference?
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>>>Timothy,
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>>>Set the rowsourcetype to Files and read the value property to see what the user seleted.
>>Right., thanks
>>Also can I have it so that only '.dat' files show up?
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>Timothy,
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>Put the mask in the rowsource property as *.Dat

One last quest if I may impose, the file is on another drive but the path name is not saved in "thisform.combo2.value", but just the file name itself. This causes a problem because now the program thinks it's in the curdir() :(