I usually populate combo boxes via arrays or cursors, with a description in the 1st row & the actual value in the 2nd.

I recently tried using the AddListItem to populate the control, but I only stumbled across example code in a Marcus Egger book, as there's no real example in the VP or MSDN documentation. After seeing the example, it was fairly easy.

The only thing I find strange with this approach is that all the values need to be character, numerics need to be converted. However, if the bound value is a numeric, the converted numeric is stored without any intervention. What's going on there?

What's the difference in using AddListItem compared to AddItem?

Thanks,

Andy Crawshaw