>Timothy,
>What you're talking about is what is often called a "Quicken-style" combo after the accounting program that used this type of combobox. If you search under 'Quicken' you should find several in Files.
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>However I am more concerned with your putting 500 records into a combobox. Combos and Lists get unstable after about 200 records, and will become slow to load and slow to react to user entry. You might consider building a textbox/button/grid combination which handles the data much faster. Let the user enter data into the textbox,using the InterActiveChange() to search for the 'next match'. Then if they want to see a list use the button to pop up a grid (visible = .T.) with the closest record showing.
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>The problem with 500 records is that later they're 600, then 1000 and you have users screaming about speed.
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>My $.02 US
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>Barbara
Actually there is really less than 100 items that will actually make it into the combobox via sql statement. I could not find anything on quicken in the files section except the calculator demo.