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SELECT (grid.RecordSource)
* Add column
* Add combo in column
* Set ControlSource on column

MartinJ

>I suppose you've checked the obvious. The grid and the grid column are both read/write?
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>Alan
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>>Thanks MartinJ, However I have tried that, several times, and in several methods with no change in results.
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>>I appreciate your assistance, but am still looking...
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>>Steve Miller
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>>After adding combo in column, set property ControlSource again.
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>>MartinJ
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>>>Thanks George,
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>>>However I have tried setting the combo box's read only property to .f. in it's gotfocus method but somehow the control is set back to readonly at run time!
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>>>I have been unable to find any docoumentation to explain this behaviour.
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>>>Still Looking...
>>>Steve Miller
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>>>>I'm designing a form with a grid containing job assignements for a given period the source is a cursor from a select command in the form's load method. one column contains a combo box containing a list of the employees assigned to the job using as it's source a differnet cursor also from a select statment in the form's load method with a where clause to the jobid.
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>>>>I can not seem to get the combo box to open it's list! When clicking on the combo box drop down button, I get a notice in the status bar that the control is read only... and when checking in the debuger it indeed is, but is not set that way anywhere I can find, in fact attempts to set it otherwise are not sucessfull.
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>>>>I'm sure some of you have run across this, and I'm missing something simple but I've spent a couple of days on this with no luck... any advice please!
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>>>>Thanks for your Attention
>>>>Steve Miller
>>>>Grand Haven, MI
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>>>Sounds similar to a problem that I had with a check box that was programmatically added to the grid. The work-around was to explicitly set the ReadOnly property to .F.
>>>George
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>>>Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est