Do it in the combo's Init.

>I wanted to put the following expression in the columnwidths property for a combobox:
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>len(errsrt.csortname), 0
>or
>nwidth1, 0
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>but vfp keeps resetting it back to: 0, 0
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>Is this by design? Am I missing something? How can I dynamically set the column width = to the length of the my field?
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>BTW - I am setting the second column to zero width, because I don't want to show it - but I want it to be bound to the value property - this is the only way I could get it to do this. I guess that would be the standard way to accomplish that?
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>(vfp6)
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>TIA