Erick, No, actually I meant what I thyped:
$HostName ->Select(0); It works for me. Make sure you place that before your Win32::GUI::Dialog() call or somewhere where it will get called from a specific sub. Try this short code and see if it works: ===================================== use Win32::GUI; my $screen_width = Win32::GUI::GetSystemMetrics(0); my $screen_height = Win32::GUI::GetSystemMetrics(1); my $minwidth = 620; my $minheight = 255; my $MainWindow = new Win32::GUI::Window( -name => "MainWindow", -top => ($screen_height - $minheight)/2, -left => ($screen_width - $minwidth)/2, -width => $minwidth, -height => $minheight, -minsize=> [$minwidth,$minheight], -title => "Sample Window", ); $HostName = $MainWindow->AddCombobox( -name => "HostName", -tabstop => 1, -style => WS_VISIBLE | 2 | WS_NOTIFY, -left => 205, -top => 10, -width => 110, -height => 160, ); $HostName->InsertItem ("ftp.server1.com"); $HostName->InsertItem ("ftp.server2.com"); $MainWindow->Show(); $HostName->Select(0); Win32::GUI::Dialog(); ============================================= Let me know if it still doesn't work for you. Jonathan Southwick Technical & Network Services Allegheny College, Meadsville, PA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Erick J. Bourgeois To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:22 PM Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Combobox Johnathan, Do you mean $HostName ->Select[0]; I tried both ways, both don't work. erick never stop questioning www.jeb.ca