Dave,
it is incredibly difficult to guess what's going on when yahoogroups strips
everything that isn't text from your message. Please try to explain your
problem in pure text.

set

At 10:58 06.04.2001 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have put an IB_LookupCombo in a grid, and everything works fine - that is
>until the user types characters while the drop-down list is showing (in the
>expectation that this will jump the the matching rows of the list). What
>happens instead is that the characters appear to go into the "underlying"
>editbox and shrink the size of the displayed list. Like this:
>
>
>
>
>How can I stop this happening? Ideally, I would like the typed input to act
>as an incremental search of the list. My second and third options would be
>to make each character jump to the first (or next) value beginning with that
>letter, or just to reject the input and beep.