Please read my response few messages back. I said, you need to add an array property aTables to your form.

Anyway, you can also do it in the code with

thisform.AddProperty('aTables[1]')

>hi,
>i try as under i get error message Property "aTables" is not found
>

>nTablesCount=adir(thisform.aTables,"*.dbf")
>thisform.list1.RowSourceType = 5
>thisform.list1.RowSource = 'thisform.aTables'
>thisform.list1.Requery()
>thisform.list1.ListIndex = 1
>

>thanks
>>>hi,