>Oh - well - that messes up what I had planned (-1 for old system converted lookup code).

Not really. as I said before, if you remove step # 3, it will work just fine. You will just have to VAL() the value of the textbox.

>I hate it when I search for something in the knowledge base (like this) and it DOES NOT SHOW UP :( - (i used only two words "negative" and "combobox" - and I thought I tried it with just "combo" too).
>
>The only problem is - I'm not trying to display the negative value, I have two columns in the list. But I guess with the bound column returning a negative value ...
>
>Oh - well - that messes up what I had planned (-1 for old system converted lookup code).
>
>Thanks,
>James
>
>
>>Hi James.
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>>Problem: When I select an item from a list in a dropdown combobox - the display value goes blank. But, this only happens when the value to be returned from the combobox is a negative value.
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>>This one is a known issue. Check out MSDN:
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>>PRB: Negative Numbers Do Not Display in a Combo Box
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>>Q190267
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>>The information in this article applies to:
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>>Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0
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>>SYMPTOMS
>>If a combo box has the RowSourceType set to SQL Statement and the BoundTo property is set to true, negative numeric values do not display in the combo box.