Maybe this is the ways of Windows…

I have a combobox (style=dropdown list). After I make a valid entry, I can't delete out the entry in a combobox. I know that I could change the sytle, but I don't want to use the "dropdown" style because of its looks. I've tried adding a "blank" as valid item, but no success.

Has anyone ever come up with a workaround for this situation?

Thanks,

Ray

P.S. I will post this on the otherside as well.

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Ray Chan ~ Symmetry Info

Ray,

I haven't check for an answer on the other side yet but here's what we do: insert a @FM in the combobox LIST property during the process that creates the list in the first place. That is, if this is a list created in the Form Designer then put a blank space on top of the existing entries. If you populate the combobox programmatically then put the @FM in front of the list before setting the LIST property. You've probably been trying to append the @FM, which just gets stripped.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

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Another option is to copy the way some web sites use this.

Often you see things like:

 Enter Country

 Australia

 United States

 etc

The user then knows what to do, and has the option to clear it out.

Or, include at the top, which will still sort first.

You can then check for this in your processing and ignore.

Colin

Don and Colin,

I think that's what I will do. It seems like the easiest and will require less maintainance in the long-run.

Thanks,

Ray

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Ray Chan ~ Symmetry Info

Hi All

I put an @FM into the Edit table on the GOTFOCUS event (as well as the CREATE event) when it is empty so that people can enter stuff at that point if they had deleted everything before.

Not sure if this applies to combo boxes or not.

The option sounds like a useful one.

Scott, LMS

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