You could set the RowSourceType to Alias or Fields and put the SQL statement in the Requery method of the listbox.

Rick

>This has got to be something most people already know - sorry if it's a dumb ?. (UT KB and FAQs have nothing on this...)
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>On a form is a page with a ListBox. The list box data source is an SQL statement. But, when I'm entering the actual statement, VFP 5.0 truncates at 256 chars! Argh! Is this 'unchangeable' behaviour or am I missing something (the docs are of no help)? Surely 256 characters for an SQL statement is way too few?
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>-Arne