>To get selected items in a ComboBox, I can loop through each element, and check whether .Selected(i) is true.
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>Is there a shortcut to get the selected element without writing a loop, assuming that .MultiSelect = .F.?
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>And how about setting the initial value?
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>As an example, I have a ComboBox to select months, with values "January, February, March...". In this case, I want to a) preset it to the current month, b) Get the user selection as a number (Jan. = 1, Feb. = 2...).
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>Right now, I have assigned a number (as text) to a second, invisible, column - but I thought there might be a simpler way to do this.
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>TIA,
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>Hilmar.

ListIndex.

To be more clear :

myList.ListIndex = 4 && Sets initial selection to 4th item
myList.ListIndex = month(Date())

* Get selected month number
lnMonth = myList.ListIndex && You would store just Cmonth()
Cetin