>>>>>Help!! I have this combo box that is an array. When I key data into the combo it will stay displayed until I leave or tab to a new field. How do I get this to stay displayed?
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>>>>>Holly Clawson
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>>>>Does anybody agree with me that the FoxPro team really missed the boat either with design or documentation of combo boxes??
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>>>>Anyway, Deja vu, all over again....
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>>>>Holly,
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>>>>Are you selecting from the list, or is this a new value? If it's a new value, you should store the DisplayValue to a variable, add the item to the array, requery and reset DisplayValue to equal the variable. Ed and I posted an answer to a similar problem yesterday. If you're selecting from the list, you shouldn't have that behavior.
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>>>>Hey Michel, is there a FAQ listed somewhere on combos at VFUG? These combo threads are getting repetitive and old and I'm among the worst offenders.
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>>>>Matt
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>>>Matt
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>>>Are you telling me I ask to many questions about combos. They sure are giving me a terrible time.
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>>>--Holly
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>>Nope, I'm saying that I ask too many questions about combo boxes. Heck, maybe Ed's right...time to go back and hit the books. I haven't cracked them in a couple of months... :-)
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>>BTW, I STILL think the combobox behavior is kludgey sometimes.
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>>Matt
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>You know Matt, two years ago I got VFP manual few months earlier than I got real product, so I had time to went through the books. Surely, if somebody gets VFP, his first motion is to use 2.6 techniques where many developers (including myself) used arrays under popups.

quit using arrays as soon as m$ gave us the ability to specify tables as control sources...