Nancy,

The turning off the incremental search still allows the user to type in a valid entry.

How do I force the list to open when the control gets focus?

By the way, I am useing VFP 6 sp4.


>Mark-
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>>I have the comboboxes set as dropdown lists so the only values that can be typed in have to be in the list, but that is not good enough. Is there any way to prevent keyboard input into a combobox? I think I could possibly simulate the desired behavior by activating a listbox or some type of popup menu, but have never done anything like that before.
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>>Any suggestions????
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>Since a drop down list won't let them type in values not in the list, I gather you mean that the combo is finding matches for what is typed. There are two things you can do. Automatically drop down the list when it gets focus, and two, turn incremental search off.