Hi Angie.

I have "1001 things" and was looking this up before I posted here! Its nice to be replied to by a genuine Fox "celeb" :)

< rof,l > and < lol >!!!! I hardly consider myself a celeb < s >. I hope that you are enjoying the book and that you find it useful. Ya know, I lived in the UK - Caversham to be exact - for almost 2 years. Andy and I look forward to moving back across the pond in about another 10 years. I REALLY miss it!

I am using VFP8 SP1. Its either not been fixed or its a different problem.

You are absolutely correct! I just tested this in VFP 8 SP1 and it has indeed not been fixed :-(

Its a real shame because I have developed a combo class around this requirement and it all works great apart from this "display" issue. If you have any further thoughts on this, they would be appreciated.

The only thing that I can suggest trying is to add a custom cControlSource property to the combo class and unbind the combo behind the scenes on init() after saving its ControlSource to its cControlSource property. The you write a little code to manually update the control's value from its controlSource in a custom UpdateValue() method called from the refresh() and manually update the contrlSource in a custom UpdateControlSource() method called from its Valid().

The display appears to display selections just fine when the control is not bound (i.e., the ControlSource property is left empty)