It could be coincidence, but I have also just encountered this problem today having used it in the past. My solution (botch) was to set the value in the init method, rather than using the property inspector.



>>Hey Jim!
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>>Is it in a grid? I'm having the same behavior with a combobox in a grid. It's a relatively obscure piece of functionality, so I've just dealt with it. Sparse is set to .f., and the control shows up in each column, but it just doesn't show the value until it has the focus.
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>Hi David. No, it's not in a grid, which makes it even more maddening. I've done this a thousand times and I've never had a problem until now.