Hi again Vlad

OK, figured out that if you change the RGB() color setting in Nick's sample to an RGB color-pair then you achieve the desired result. i.e.

DEFINE BAR 1 OF colorlist PROMPT "Red" COLOR ,RGB(254,0,0,255,0,0)

This will create a Red bar as the 1st element. The name "Red" will only appear when you highlight that row because of the highlight color settings of the combo box. I am sure one can set the highlight colours to a dynamic setting to reflect the current highlighted element? I'll try it.

Note that you have to make the first (foreground) RGB color slightly different from the second (background) RGB setting otherwise it does some type of XOR (or something) which cancels the foreground and background settings out leaving just a white bar with faded text?