this is rather neat....or NOT!...combo box doesn't work in winxp

[vbdotnetboy]

this is rather interesting. i have been writing this db app on a win2k machine, everything has been working perfect. i put it on my laptop to test it with winxp...keeping in mind, in my Sub Main i have Application.EnableVisualStyles() and all control that have the FlatStyle property are set to System. Like i said everything works fine in win2k. Now i have a DLL that has a class that derives a base class that is a form used for adding and edited, based upon what constructor is call. when the form is shown it's shown as a ShowDialog(). Everything works on the form when displayed and you do all the things you would or could want to do with all the controls and fields and buttons and whatever...EXCEPT...HAHAHA...this one combo box that is populated with data from an array, just loading US States. when you click on it to drop...oh it does that just fine...but when you start to scroll the app crashes, burns, and pukes. so just for s*** and giggles...i commented out the Application.EnableVisualStyles()....and ***POOF*** IT FREAKING WORK FINE!!!!! Can ANYONE possible give me any idea WHY? this is me -->

If anyone would like to see the code i will gladly zip it up and put in on the forum with the database.

just an FYI: total size of everything is a little over 3MB unzipped.


thanx to anyone that might have a clue...or not...or just feels like writing crap because i want to cry.

later