>I have a container with an incremental search combobox and a editbox that I have placed in a grid. Since I want this control to show in all the rows at all times I have set the sparse to False.But if the sparse is set to false the incremental search will only search on the first letter in the combo. I am positive this is because I can't get the SelStart or the SelLength poperties to work. If the sparse is set to True then everything works fine. But if the cell isn't selected then a blank is shown in the cell,this is why I want it set to False. Question is why will the SelStart and SelLength only work when the column sparse is set to True.
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>Randy

Randy,
Incremental search doesn't work on first letter only. It's timed with _dblclick up to current version and will change in next version. You could increase _dblclick on gotfocus and set back to default on lostfocus.
Textbox being empty should be related with inputmask. Provide an inputmask wide enough to hold size of field (replicate('X',fsize(..)).
Sparse .t. setting IMHO is more appropriate.
Cetin