Thanks Nick.

The problem with these created controls is that it is much to slow on combo boxs with many (1000 and up) items in the list box (an incremental search on the items in the list every time a keypress event occurs).

We solved this issue in a VB program we had by using an API call. The problem with running this in FoxPro is that VFP 5.0 does not provide handles to common controls...as far as I can tell from the research I've done. Is this true from what you know?

Valter