Hi Simon,

Now I see it. I guess cobobox wasn't design such situation. You can play with SelectedBackColor settings to make it look better but you would be better of usin g button with image for that.

>Here is the code that produces the result on my screen. I am using WinXP and VFP 9 Beta.
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>Public go
>go=CreateObject("form")
>go.AddObject("combobox","combobox")
>go.combobox.visible=.Y.
>go.combobox.left=50
>go.combobox.top=50
>go.combobox.rowsource="1,2,3,4,5,6"
>go.combobox.rowsourcetype=1
>go.combobox.style=2
>go.combobox.width=16
>go.Show()
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