>I have a combobox on a form that I want to display the unique records in a drop down list. I am doing this with an array as the rowsource and I fill it in the controls init with "Select Distinct company from shows into array apick" The problem is that the array must be visible outside the form that the control lives in. I take it that this is because the control inits before the form and an array on the form won't exist when the control is created. In Will Hentzens Fundamentals book, chapter 9 says that you can put the array into the control, but I have been unable to figure out how. Does anyone have some hints on this?
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>TIA.
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>Ron

Add an array property to your application object. If you don't have an application object, create an object that lives in memory while your application is running and is destroyed when the application closes. Add an array property to this object and use it when you need to.