>Hi Naomi,
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>Thanks for responding. You're completely right about the scope of things at INIT. I did add the code to the form INIT, passing in the reference to the collection (THISFORM.o_form_coll) and the controls are able to resolve it. Thanks for the great suggestion -- that worked.
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>However, the BINDEVENT on the CA Vs form controls is still a mystery. I do know the DE gets created first along with objects on it (i.e. CA's). It makes me wonder if this is too early for the BINDEVENT command to get a resolution on THISFORM in the INIT of the CA.
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>Thanks again,
>Larry

I'm sorry, I haven't tried to bind CA events to something, so I don't know. I may try this tonight.

But you can also have a separate method in your CA class, from which you can call BindEvent. Say, add Initialize method to CA base class, then you can also call it from form's Init.