Is it just me, or are there some really wierd things going on with comboboxes in VFP5? I tried to make a simple combobox, with a rowsourcetype of 0, that adds items from a cursor by scanning each record and adding the item. I set the style to combobox, because the user needs to add a value if not in the list, or if the list is empty. I found that the typed in value didn't work, it disappeared when things were refreshed. The list values showed fine when chosen from the list. So I tried adding the item to the list, but i was checking displayvalue against the list to ensure that i didn't add an item that was already in the list. It turns out that displayvalue has some gibberish characters in it. I have run into so many problems with comboboxes in the past, that I am just about ready to give up on the idea of using a combobox all together. Has anyone got an idea of how I can let my users select an item from a list OR add their own value?

TIA!!!