That's what BINDEVENTS() is supposed to solve for you. You need to take another look at it because you can most definitely hook any events that way at runtime. In fact BINDEVENTS() is pretty damn flexible in that it can hook control events as well as plain methods which is quite powerful to implement functional style programming behavior in FoxPro.

The other alternative is to create a subclass of your listbox, add your event code then instantiate that class that has the code in it. If that doesn't work you ARE doing runtime event binding and you HAVE TO use BINDEVENTS() as that's the only way to attach behavior to an object.

+++ Rick ---

>I use the form designer always, but I have come across a situation where I need to add a listbox to a form programmatically. This I got right, and it pops up at the right time, etc, but I need help in where, and how to add the events code. This lot pops up the box. Where in relation to this do I put the events code? Many thanks!
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>			thisform.AddObject('oList1','ListBox')
>			with thisform.oList1
>			   .rowSource = "oldjobs"
>			   .rowsourcetype=2
>			   .visible=.t.
>			   .top=186
>			   .left=350
>			   .width=250
>			   .columncount=2
>			   .columnwidths='150,75'
>			   .SelectedItemBackColor=RGB(70,60,50)
>			   .SelectedItemForeColor=RGB(10,191,160)
>			   .SpecialEffect=1
>			   .ItemBackColor=RGB(40,40,40)
>			   .ItemForeColor=RGB(255,204,153)
>			   .BorderStyle = 1
>			   .BorderColor=RGB(235,132,0)
>			endwith
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