>>To All :
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>>I am trying to add a drop down list to a form with two columns.
>>

Vendors_id is a character field. It was pointing to the correct vendors_id.

I added BoundTo = .t. and it helped. No longer was the vendor_id of each record wiped clean (blank) as I stepped over it. Unfortunately the displayvalue is still a blank.

In the actual control the vendors come from an array which is a property of a Biz_Object. To cut down on complexity and to eliminate sources of possible error I "Select SQL'ed" against a temporay cursor.

I did however try RowSourceType = 3 and a SQL for the RowSource. It made no difference.

I have investigated this much further and posted it under a new thread "MultiColumn droplist remains blank - II". I found a work a round but cannot imagine why I have to use it.

Thank you very much.

>Don,
>ControlSource = "vendors_id"
>Whose vendors_id is it ? It's suspect this would depend on what the current alias is or is it a memvar if current alias doesn't have that field at all.
>I'd also set boundto = .t. and since this is populated from an SQL result I'd directly use the SQL as the rowsource.
>
>

>DEFINE CLASS vendors AS xcbochg
>	BoundColumn = 2
>        BoundTo = .t.
>	ColumnCount = 2
>	ColumnWidths = "120,80"
>	ControlSource = "TargetAlias.vendors_id"
>	ColumnLines = .F.
>	Width = 133
>	Name = "vendors"
>
>	PROCEDURE Init
>            with this
>               .RowSourceType = 3
>               .RowSource = ;
>		"select vn_name,vendors_id from vendors "+;
>                "     into CURSOR crsVendors order by 1"
>            endwith
>	ENDPROC
>ENDDEFINE
>

Having SQL there would give you the flexibility directly querying any column (pointer moves in cursor). ie:Thisform.IsChanged() could directly use crsVendors.vendors_id or crsVendors.vn_name if need be instead of ..myCombo.List(), val(..myCombo.Value) etc
>Cetin