>For about thousand cities, you can stil use the combobox, I performance seems >to be slow, I would recommend using a grid.

Performance is more than acceptable on a P166 at work. Our clients have faster machines, so this should definitely not be a problem.

>As for the incremental search issue, Try using one of the autocomplete >comboboxes found here in the files section. They might be what you're looking

I did. I downloaded "autocompletecombo". I had to make a minor modification to it, and it is now working like a charm.

thanks again to all those who replied.

Michel