if you do SelLength=len(YourText.Text), it will probably help to solve part
of the problem.
Elvira

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Allen [mailto:lmallen@s...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:00 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] VB's ComboBox Control


I have been banging my head against the wall all day, any help would be 
appreciated. I'm using VB Professional version 6 with all service packs 
installed (through Service Pack 3).

I have a form with numerous Combo's on it. The combo's are Style = 
0-DropDownLists and sort is set to True. All other properties are set at 
their defaults.

When a user selects from the Combo list the selected item is shown in the 
text box as highlighted. But only a blue highlight is displayed and the 
underlying text does not show. When the combo loses focus the proper text 
is displayed in the Combo.Text area.

I experienced the same problem if the user did NOT dropdown the list but 
instead chose to use the Up/Down arrow keys on the combo box, however I was 
able to circumvent this problem by placing the following code in the 
KeyDown and KeyUp events:
If KeyCode = vbKeyDown Or KeyCode = vbKeyUp Then
   cboCharge.SelStart = 1
   cboCharge.SelLength = 0
End If

Any thoughts, suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly 
appreciated.

lm allen