Thanks - that's got it.
>Hi - I am trying to get some behaviour from a combo box and I need to test in the keypress event whether the drop down is down or up. I can set a variable on my form with the dropdown method but is there a way of catching the close up?
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>This code in the combo's KeyPress before checking to see whether it is dropped down:
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>*** If escape or enter pressed, the list is not dropped down anymore
>IF nKeyCode = 27 OR nKeyCode = 13		
>  This.lDroppedDown = .F.
>ENDIF
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>And This code in the combo's Click():
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>This.lDroppedDown = .F.
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