>>>I have, by now , written several programs in VFP and used a lot of combo boxes. All of a sudden, in my latest venture, none of them are working properly. Here are the symptoms: If I run a form, press the Edit button, and go straight to the combo box, it will not "keep" any selection I make from the drop-down box (the Style property is 2--Drop Down List). If, however, I poke around on the form and go back to the combo box, it functions just fine. Or, if I type the first letter of the desired choice, it works fine (sometimes). I just cannot select from the drop-down box. Instead, the combo box remains empty and, if there happens to be a control "underneath" the selection that I click on, focus is shifted to that control. It is as if the drop-down list doesn't exist. This behavior happens whether I use my sub-classed control or whether I use the VFP standard control with no custom methods at all. It also happens , irrespective of how I fill the combo box.
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>>>Anybody out there seen anything like this? I don't know where else to look and would really appreciate some clues.
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>>>TIA.
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>>>John
>>Hi John.
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>>What are the ControlSource and RowSource for the Combo?
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>>Marcia
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>Marcia:
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>Thanks for kicking in here. The ControlSource is a field in a table in the DE. Bound is .T. The RowSource is a field in another table, also in the DE. To be specific, I have a table of colleges that is the RowSource; I want to stamp the selected college into the Student.College field (the ControlSource). Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
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>Thanks again . . .
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>John

Hi John.

This seems awfully goofy to me. What you are doing certainly seems straightforward enough. When I got your reponse, and re-read your original message, it struck me as odd that now *none* of your combos are working any more. If this is the case, it might be a good time to re-install VFP. Just a thought...

Marcia