Well written, Marcia.

I and many others have suggested over and over again that Fabio reports the bugs and anomolies he discovers to Microsoft, but it seems like Fabio thinks it's better to tell us about them instead. Not that we don't want to hear about them, but his way of doing these things are not very constructive. Sometimes his persistence (is that the correct word?) is more destructive in my opinion.

NB! Maybe he should buy your books, and the Hacker's Guide?

>someone can tell me why the Combobox is therefore is not important for the VFPT?
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>The VFP team has to deal with a lot of ERs and BUG reports from thousands of users. I am sure that all of the issues are important to them. However, the members of the team - just like anyone else - have only so much time in a day < s >.
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>My best guess is that, if there is a workaround (as there is in this particular case), other problems that do not have any workaround take priority.
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>It is full of issues and bugs not resolved.
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>I'm sorry, but I do not happen to agree with you. I use combos all the time - they are one of my favorite controls - and I do not have any particular issues with them. The VFP team has done a lot of work on the combo base class over the years and resolved loads of issues. I remember, back in VFP 3, we had to write our own code to handle combos that were bound to numeric controlSources - they added the BoundTo property in version 5 so that this would be handled automatically. I can't remember which version of VFP it was - 3 or 5 - where the combo box would crash VFP if it has more than 253 elements and you selected element 253. This got fixed too ( although my personal opinion is that putting over 200 items in a combo box is bad UI design, but that is another story < s > ).
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>I do not know about you, but I have never written an entirely bug free application. As my clients discover issues, I address them. I am sure that my applications are not nearly as complex as VFP is. Expecting the VFP team to address every single issue you have immediately is simply not realistic. I can't do that for my clients.