Thanks for the repsonce.

I must of had a typo for 1 (deleted and renetered the property). I have 1st 2 parts of of 2. My problem are

1. get only one line in drop is displayed (There are 17 lines in the array, by checking debugguer), i.e 14 123457 is displayed (how do I get rest of the array to display (10 lines max on the screen)?
2. after selectiing the item I only see the 14, can I dsplay 14 1234567?


>1) In "New property" dialog: myArray(1)
>2) On Combo:
> combo.RowSourceType=5
> combo.RowSource="Thisform.myArray"
> combo.Refresh()
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>MartinJ
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>>VFP 7 I must be missing some thing obovious.
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>>I have a for with fields to get selection criteria. The last selection criteria will depend on on the previous ones (dattes and a vendor). I thought I could use a sql select to get the data into an arrary and then use the contents of the arrary to select a value (two related filelds, use 1st one).. I am have a problem doing this,
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>>1. how do I define an form property to be an array?
>>2. how to I assign the array to the drop down box and display the results?