Hi Alex,

> Aha !! Yes, the invisible field list gotcha. You have to select a field 
> on your form before you click on the icon that brings up the field list. 
> For some rather obscure programming design choice reason, the generation 
> of the field list requires that a field already linked to the table be 
> selected in order for that field list control to be populated - totally 
> counter intuitive I agree, but I guess this functionality is dependent 
> on some method.

That behaviour is really annoying, isn't it? There's a perfect technical
explanation why it is as it as, but this is no argument for keeping this
usability issue.
I always planned to change this by passing, but as always, <hint>an
issue might speed this up</hint> :)

Ciao
Frank

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