Try moving the search code into the Keypress event, looking for some special key to kick off the search, like Enter.

IF nKeyCode = 13
  ** Do the search
ENDIF

>Hello again:
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>I have a combobox on my form that has a great deal of code in the interactive change. The problem is that if you type in a name using the incremental search option, the code in the interactive change executes each time eating the keystrokes.
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>So if you type A m b looking for Ambit, you get AAA systems, then Matrox, then Bally. No matter how fast or slow you type.
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>I changed the _dblclick in the got focus as suggested in a previous thread and it works better; however, now if you type fast, you get the same response as above. If you type slower, it will find the correct line item in the combobox.
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>My question is:
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>Is there any way to tell that the user is still typing or if the user has finished the selection process. I would like to move the code from the interactive event to the lostfocus event, but I have to know when to shift the focus so that the screen fields update with the information from the new customer record.
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>Thanks in advance.