>>>I have a combobox who's dropdown list shows up as empty when it shouldn't.
>>>In the DropDown() method I have something like this:
>>>
>>>lnQResult = REQUERY(viewname)
>>>
>>>IF lnQResult <> 1
>>> Wait Window ('Requery problem')
>>>ELSE
>>> This.Requery()
>>> wait window ('Made it this far')
>>> This.Refresh()
>>> If This.ListCount = 0
>>> Wait Window ('empty list')
>>> EndIF
>>>EndIf
>>>
>>>I get the problem with this sequence of actions:
>>>
>>>1. Users clicks the down arrow - the view has a bunch of records, the user selects one.
>>>2. User takes focus off the combobox, then goes back to the combobox and clicks the down arrow.
>>>3. This time, there is only 1 record in the view, so that is what they select.
>>>4. User takes focus off the combobox, then goes back to the combobox and clicks the down arrow.
>>>5. This time the view has a bunch of records, but the list shows up empty! Plus the listcount is NOT equal to zero!!
>>>6. If they click the down arrow a second time, it works.
>>>
>>>I can repeat this 100% of the time. Does ANYONE have ANY idea on a work around for this? I've tried it with VFP7 and 8...same problem.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>
>>Victor,
>>
>>I have seen this type of behaviour with the combobox, listbox and grid when it related to a cursor / table. The cause, I believe, is the record pointer the control believes it should be on, no longer exist and it appears blank. I have set the pointer to the first record, refreshed the control, requeried, then refreshed the control again to get this behaviour to stop.
>>
>>HTH,
>
>hmmmmm...well I tried that and still seem to have the same behavoir, I still have to hit the down arrow 2 times. Maybe I can put the code that's in the downarrow in a new method and just run it two times??
>I've had problems like this in the past and actualy ended up putting a textbox on top of the combobox to get it to do what I wanted. It just seems insane to do something like that though.

I'm sure I had to refresh the object more than once for the information to correctly appear. I was just having the problem yesterday with a grid, after deleting a record in it. I rebuilt the cursor, and the grid was blank. Added Go Top in Cursor, Grid.Refresh() cured the problem. I have seen the behaviour before in comboboxes, and cleaned it up the same way then. Wish I could have been more help.