On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:17:51 GMT gerard patel <g.patel@wanadoo.fr.invalid> wrote: > these are the coordinates of the list rectangle : width : 432-291=141 > pixels, height = 187-185 = 2. Logically when you click the arrow, a > very thin rectangle should appear below the combobox. what the application actually does is smoothly grow the list to a total of 15 entries with a scroll bar on the right side of the list, 8 entries showing at a time. it's possible that the first step in the smooth drop down of the list is a 2 pixel rectangle; you can't really see that this is the case, though. richard -- Richard Welty Averill Park Networking Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security rwelty@averillpark.net 518-573-7592