Hi Sarosh.

>> 1] In a grid while he is in the combo box in that column he would like to use the down arrow to go to the next record not to the next item in the combo box - This I can handle in the combo's keypress event - if dnarrow/uparrow keys are pressed then accordingly skip/skip -1 (if possible) and refresh the grid but then when the list portion of the combo box is open he wants the arrow keys to move up and down in the list now because of the keypress event the cursor wont move while the list portion of the combo is open - Is there a way to know if the combo list open or not? if possible then maybe I can handle it but it still won't be clean. <<

The easy answer here is:

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Go to www.Hentzenwerke.com or click on the books link here and order "1001 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Visual Foxpro"
There are classes in chapter 6 of the book that address you specific need.
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>> 2] He would like to do an incremental seek based on the description of the FK field slowly (I can kind of handle it by reducing the speed of the dblclick to two or three seconds (_dblclick = 2 or 3 in the gotfocus of the combo and resetting it in the lostfocus) - not clean again. Further he would like to highlight the remaining characters - just like it does in quicken. <<

There are also classes to handle this functionality. Sounds like you should recover the cost of the book very quickly < vbg >.

Marcia