Strange: I dropped a combo on a form, set the rowsource to this.alist and put the following in the init:

this.AddProperty("aList[1]")
Dimension aTest[5, 2]
atest[1, 1] = "abc"
atest[1, 2] = 1
atest[2, 1] = "bcd"
atest[2, 2] = 2
atest[3, 1] = "cde"
atest[3, 2] = 3
atest[4, 1] = "def"
atest[4, 2] = 4
atest[5, 1] = "efg"
atest[5, 2] = 5
 
Acopy(atest,this.alist)
this.RowSourceType = 5
this.NumberOfElements = 2

When I click the combo arrow there are only 2 items in the list. Based on what you posted, that shouldn't happen right?

>VFP7SP1. I have a combo class that retrieves records from lookup tables into an array. I am trying to limit the drop down list to 5 items by setting the NumberOfElements to 5. This property shows the correct value of 5 in the debugger, but the list always shows 7 items. My next illogical step was to set the NumberOfElements to 3 hoping to get to 5. Nope. I still get 7 listed. Am I missing something? TIA!
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>Update: Crap! We are limited to a ColumnCount of 1. So this only works if the value I want to store in the ControlSource is the lookup description instead of the PK. I guess I could just list the PK of the lookup values in the combo and let the users guess which PK to select. THIS IS WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! < SET RANT OFF >