Auto-filling a Combo Box

Hi everyone,
I am working on a form using Developer 6, and I have created a list item that is being populated dynamically. The list item is a combo box. I originally used a poplist, but it did not behave the way I intended. I would like to allow the user to be able to type in the letter 'P' and display the first item 'Pan'. Then if the user types in a 'u' after the 'P' they would get another item 'Purse' displayed in the combo box. I have tried using the LIKE% function with no success. Has anyone been successful doing this? If so, what does the code look like? I would appreciate any help you can give me.
Thanks in advance.

It seems as though in my calculation code this line:
if (a=="") event.value = ""
conflicts with this line:
else if(a==0) event.value = "Yes".
I changed the values in my code so that if a>10 it would return a "No" and if a<10 it would return a "Yes" and it worked perfectly. However, when I use the above code (a==0, it just leaves the box blank. I would take out the first line of code (a==""), but I would like the box to be blank until data has been entered into the form.

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* Title: <BR>
* Description: <BR>
* Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002<BR>
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