>Yes, this discussion again...
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>There are times when a disabled item is most user-intuitive. For instance, the old Filer would disable a file name that was in use. That told me that fact while still confirming the existence of the file. Can you imagine the panic had it been done as you suggest???
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>But I must acknowledge that the VFP teams seems to think along your lines, what with all of the functionality they have given us in this regard (virtually none).
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N

Jim,

Lists and combos can have disabled items in them. My comment to Daryl was one of User interface design. If an item is not available to be selected then it should not be in the list USUALLY. Daryl responded and explained his design and I agree with him and with you regarding file names.

I guess that I don't agree with your surmisal that we have virtually no control over this because I don't use rowsources on my lists and combos but rahter populate them in the Requery using addlistitem() calls. That way I have absolutely full control over everything that happens in the lists and combos.