>I know a ComboBox will work, but I was hoping there was another way to do this. I really only want to display text on the screen with a transparent background, so that the user will only see the text and not the dropdown arrow and ComboBox border.
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>I suppose that I could set the border and background colors to the same color as my main screen then mask out the dropdown arrow with a rectangle of the same color as the main screen.
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>I was hoping there was a less "messy" way to do this, ...
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>Gregg.

>> Hi, Gregg. If you don't want to use combobox, you can apply many otner ways. For displaying only use Label control with Caption property reset any time you move table pointer. Label control can be made transparent (see BackStyle property). If you want to edit field, use TextBox control.