>What happens is that the listbox gets populated with 5 items, but they are blank, I can even scroll them. I put a "?this.value" in the click event of the listbox to test and it turns up nothing. What gives?
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>Something that you did with my example is wrng. I just double checked this: dropped a base class list box on a base class form and copied and pasted the code I posted into the list box's init(). I saw a list box with the following items:
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>One
>Two
>Three
>Four
>Five
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>Don't know what you did or where you pasted the code, but obviously you did something different than I did.

I had to add this into the forms LOAD for it to work, did you omit this by accident? (I'm the one who makes accidents around here :) )

thisform.ADDPROPERTY("acontents[1]")

So I dropped your code into the init and PRESTO !!!!
FOR lnI = 1 TO 5
Thisform.aContents[ lnI ] = lnI
ENDFOR

WITH Thisform.List1
.RowSourceType = 5
.RowSource = "Thisform.aContents"
.Requery()
.ListIndex = 1
ENDWITH

PS, what do you mean by array scope?