Hi Fred,

Thanks for responding. Yes, I've tried the rowsource type of 2 also. Plus, the code below wasn't actually typed that way in code, I cut it out of the properties window from the rowsource property in designer mode and put it here forgetting to add the quotes because the quotes would only be required in code (like in the init of the form, etc). HOwever, I tried doing it that way too. I used the following in the form init as a test:

DODEFAULT()
thisform.list1.rowsourcetype=2
thisform.list1.rowsource="substr(de_data,62,20),substr(de_data,2,25),ALLTRIM(STR(de_profile))"
thisform.list1.requery()
thisform.list1.refresh()

and I still get the entire field of de_data in column 1 and column 2. I have columncount set to 3 and column widths of 200,200,200 for testing purposes. I'm still at the point of just trying to pull the substring out of the field to begin with let alone make it pretty....
All to no avail so far...

>>I am converting a FPD26 screen that used to popup a browse window in DOS. I have created a listbox to hold the values on the form but the problem I am running into is how to get the listbox to recognize the values. Right now it stuffs the columns using SUBSTR() with the entire contents of the field de_data. Here is my new code:
>>
>>

>>thisform.list1.rowsource = substr(master.de_data,62,20), substr(de_data,2,25), de_profile
>>

>>two of the colums are a substr of the field. I have tried using a rowsourcetype of 6 - fields to no avail. Anyway to do this?
>>
>>Here is the original FPD26 code:
>>

>>BROWSE FIELDS ;
>>	x2 = substr(de_data,62,20) :H="License#", ;
>>	x1 = substr(de_data,2,25) :H="Name", ;
>>	x3 = de_profile :H="System ID" ;
>>	FREEZE x2 ;
>>

>>
>>TIA!
>>Tracy
>
>Do you have your .RowSourceType set to 2, and you need quatation marks around your .RowSource entry:
>

>thisform.list1.rowsource = "substr(master.de_data,62,20), substr(de_data,2,25), de_profile"
>