Yes I have 64M ram, but I want to write it with a 486/33 in mind. Maybe I did something wrong tho... anyways my sol'n is kinda what you suggested:
I visited Microsoft's ftp site - lotsa neat stuff there.
I found something like what I was looking for and created my own based on the idea: a timer implementing a search so that as they type, every half second what they've typed so far is incrementally searched and the remainder of the match is selected text so that if they wish to reject the selection, they can just keep typing.

The disappointing thing is that MSAccess (even the old version 2) can do exactly that without doing anything fancy. Oh well, their are still LOTS of things I like better about Foxpro. But why have an incremental search feature on a combo box if it only works on a list box?

Thanx for the help :)