>Okay, there is a table called PHASE, each record has a PHASE_ID, I
>want a ComboBox that gets filled with PHASE.DESCRIPTION values. I
>select a value in the ComboBox, and press a button, it writes the
>PHASE_ID that matches that description and the current time into a
>flat file. After an amount of time, I press the button again, and
>it then creates a TIMECARD record, and deletes the flat file.
>
>When the program starts, it looks for the flat file, if it exists, it
>assumes that it never got the end-time, meaning I either ended the
>program, or Windows exploded. So it reads the two values out of the
>file, and restores the variables. I would like that if the ComboBox
>was pointing to a specific record when it wrote the flat file, that
>it be pointing to the same record after we restore the values from
>the flat file.

Probably fairly simple. Make sure you get to the right record of your
TIB_Query, and simply
TIB_Query1.FieldByName('PHASE_ID').AsInteger:=YourRestoredValue; (assuming
it is in edit state).

I think that should get the right value for you in your ComboBox. By the
way, why do you use this flat file rather than writing directly to your
TIMECARD table?

Set

(PS! I haven't seen your mail on Atkin yet)