Hi,

the strange behaviour occurs if you leave the mouse pointer
on the area where the list opens. In this case the item selected
is the wrong one (that of the mouse pointer position) and any
key closes the list - the original value keeps untouched.

Move the mouse pointer to one of the screen corners and everything works well.

Unfortunately there is no proper way to move the mouse pointer
automatically e.g. on the arrow button of the control. The MOUSE
command allows only relative positioning to the current window.

Andreas


>>did you find a solution to this strange behaviour? I was just searching
>>the messages for this problem (VFP6 SP3).
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>>>sometimes when I open up the list with alt downarrow, I can then navigate the list with the usual navigation keys...uparrow,downarrow,pageup,pagedown,etc.
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>>>but sometimes after entering altdownarrow, the list opens up, but as soon as I hit any of the navigation keys, the list immediatly closes. I've experimented around, but cannot determine what gets the combo into this state. When it is, I can still use the mouse to select a list element or run the slider.
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>No. It still happens intermittently and I can determine no reason for it. I can be working on a form and have the misbehvior occur...move to some other field...then come back to the combo and sometimes then the combo will open cleanly with alt/downarrow and sometimes it won't. I may in fact be using (or abusing) some property or method in a fashion not intended by the designer of the combo baseclass, but I'm pretty sure the problem is being manifested in some hidden state variable.
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>I just have too many fish to fry to worry about it. I just use the mouse to open the combo and select new values when keyboard access fouls up.
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>If you ever see this behavior and figure out what the problem is, I'd sure appreciate a heads up.