diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
index cfc9be928..f614a3984 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ loadWidget("ScrollArea");
 loadWidget("Rule");
 loadWidget("Slider");
 loadWidget("TabWidget");
+loadWidget("ComboBox");
 
 # standard dialogs
 loadDialog("InputDialog");
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Menu.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Menu.nas
index b74c95fff..f27d435d9 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Menu.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Menu.nas
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ gui.MenuItem = {
                 return m;
         },
 
+        text: func {
+                return me._text;
+        },
+
         setMenu: func(menu) {
                 menu._parent_item = me;
                 menu._canvas_item = me._parent_menu._canvas_item;
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
index bceef1804..56798b4e8 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ gui.Widget = {
       # add listener when first binding is added
       # if this happens before the view is set, we instead do it in _setView below
       if ((size(me._bindings) == 1) and me._view) {
-        me.addEventListener("keydown", func(e) me._onKeyPressed(e));
+        me._view._root.addEventListener("keydown", func(e) me._onKeyPressed(e));
       }
   },
 
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/dialogs/WidgetsFactoryDialog.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/dialogs/WidgetsFactoryDialog.nas
index 6df559284..fa3a9859e 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/dialogs/WidgetsFactoryDialog.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/dialogs/WidgetsFactoryDialog.nas
@@ -159,7 +159,15 @@ var WidgetsFactoryDialog = {
 			 "tick-count" : 10})
 			.setValue(42);
 		m.numericControlsTab.addItem(m.slider);
-		
+
+
+		m.combo1 = gui.widgets.ComboBox.new(m.tabsContent, style, {});
+		m.combo1.addMenuItem("Apples", 0);
+		m.combo1.addMenuItem("Pears", 1);
+		m.combo1.addMenuItem("Lemons", 2);
+		m.combo1.addMenuItem("Oranges", 3);
+
+		m.numericControlsTab.addItem(m.combo1);
 		return m;
 	},
 	
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
index 9a563158f..17640f479 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ DefaultStyle.widgets["menu-bar"] = {
 	}
 };
 
-# A button
+# A combo-box
 DefaultStyle.widgets["combo-box"] = {
   new: func(parent, cfg)
   {
@@ -1129,4 +1129,5 @@ DefaultStyle.widgets.list = {
 		
 		return me;
 	}
-}
+};
+
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ComboBox.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ComboBox.nas
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70f7c639f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ComboBox.nas
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2022 James Turner <james@flightgear.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+gui.widgets.ComboBox = {
+  new: func(parent, style, cfg)
+  {
+    var cfg = Config.new(cfg);
+    var m = gui.Widget.new(gui.widgets.ComboBox);
+    m._focus_policy = m.StrongFocus;
+#    m._flat = cfg.get("flat", 0);
+    m._menu = gui.Menu.new();
+    m._setView( style.createWidget(parent, cfg.get("type", "combo-box"), cfg) );
+    m._items = [];
+    m._currentIndex = nil;
+    m._style = style; # cache reference to style for creating items
+    m._down = 0;
+    
+    return m;
+  },
+
+  setText: func(text)
+  {
+    if( me._view != nil )
+      me._view.setText(me, text);
+    return me;
+  },
+
+  show: func()
+  {
+    # check if enabled
+  },
+
+  menu: func()
+  {
+    return me._menu;
+  },
+
+# convenience helper to add simple items
+  addMenuItem: func(text, value) {
+    var index = size(me._items);
+    var item = me.menu().createItem(text, func { me._itemCallback(index);}, {});
+    item.menuValue = value;
+    append(me._items, item);
+    if (me._currentIndex == nil) {
+      # select first item added, if we were previously empty
+      me.setCurrentByIndex(0);
+    }
+  },
+
+# helper to set the current item by passing in
+# a value of an item
+  setCurrentByValue: func(value) {
+    var index = 0;
+    foreach(var i; me._items) {
+      if (i.menuValue == value) {
+        setCurrentByIndex(index);
+        break;
+      }
+
+      index+=1;
+    }
+
+    logprint(DEV_WARN, "Canvas.Gui ComboBox: no such value in menu:" ~ value);
+  },
+
+  setCurrentByIndex: func(index) {
+    if (me._currentIndex == index)
+      return;
+
+    if (index >= size(me._items)) {
+      logprint(DEV_WARN, "Canvas.Gui ComboBox: invalid index passed to setCUrrentByIndex" ~ index);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    me._currentIndex = index;
+    me._view.setText(me, me._items[index].text());
+  },
+
+  setDown: func(down = 1)
+  {
+    if (me._down == down )
+      return me;
+
+    me._down = down;
+    me._onStateChange();
+    return me;
+  },
+
+# protected:
+  _itemCallback: func(index)
+  {
+    me.setCurrentByIndex(index);
+  },
+
+  _setView: func(view)
+  {
+    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
+
+    var el = view._root;
+    el.addEventListener("mousedown", func if( me._enabled ) { me.setDown(1); me._openMenu(); });
+    el.addEventListener("mouseup",   func if( me._enabled ) me.setDown(0));
+    el.addEventListener("mouseleave",func me.setDown(0));
+  },
+
+  _openMenu: func
+  {
+    me.menu().show();
+  }
+};
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/PopupMenu.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/PopupMenu.nas
deleted file mode 100644
index 07b688329..000000000
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/PopupMenu.nas
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) 2022 James Turner <james@flightgear.org>
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-
-gui.widgets.PopupMenu = {
-  new: func(parent, style, cfg)
-  {
-    var cfg = Config.new(cfg);
-    var m = gui.Widget.new(gui.widgets.Button);
-    m._focus_policy = m.StrongFocus;
-    m._flat = cfg.get("flat", 0);
-    m._menu = nil;
-    m._setView( style.createWidget(parent, cfg.get("type", "button"), cfg) );
-
-    return m;
-  },
-  setText: func(text)
-  {
-    if( me._view != nil )
-      me._view.setText(me, text);
-    return me;
-  },
-
-  show: func()
-  {
-    # check if enabled
-  },
-
-  menu: func()
-  {
-    if (!me._menu) {
-        # FIXME pass style
-        me.menu = gui.widgets.Menu.new(cfg);
-    }
-
-    return me._menu;
-  },
-
-# convenience helper to add simple items
-  addMenuItem: func(text, value) {
-    # FIXME pass style
-    me.menu().append(gui.widgets.MenuItem.new());
-  },
-
-# helper to set the current item by passing in
-# a value of an item
-  setCurrentByValue: func(value) {
-
-    
-  },
-
-# protected:
-  _setView: func(view)
-  {
-    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
-
-    var el = view._root;
-    el.addEventListener("mousedown", func if( me._enabled ) me.setDown(1));
-    el.addEventListener("mouseup",   func if( me._enabled ) me.setDown(0));
-    el.addEventListener("mouseleave",func me.setDown(0));
-  }
-};
diff --git a/Nasal/gui/XMLDialog.nas b/Nasal/gui/XMLDialog.nas
index 88962cfee..b8c293eda 100644
--- a/Nasal/gui/XMLDialog.nas
+++ b/Nasal/gui/XMLDialog.nas
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ var XMLVRule =
 };
 
 
-var XMLPopupMenu =
+var XMLComboBox =
 { 
     init: func(objectProps)
     {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ var XMLPopupMenu =
     {
         # do we support a label or is that a seperate widget?
 
-        me._view = cwidgets.PopupMenu.new(viewParent, canvas.style, {});
+        me._view = cwidgets.ComboBox.new(viewParent, canvas.style, {});
         me._layout = me._view;
         me._applyLayoutConfig();
         me.update();
@@ -585,10 +585,8 @@ var _createCompatObject = func(type)
         widget = XMLVRule;
     }
 
-    # these are called combos in XML, but are really
-    # popup menus, no free value entry is possible
     if (type == "combo") {
-        widget = XMLPopupMenu;
+        widget = XMLComboBox;
     }
 
     return gui.xml.Object.new({
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