I wish the form was FVP! If it was, I would not have needed to ask the question. After a full day of seaching assorted docs, it turns out that it is done in the absolute last place any windows programmer would think of looking. The Oracle forms' equivilant of REFRESH is WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE. Of course, to make it work is not all that easy, it takes a total of three 'triggers' and a global variable to keep the selected value displayed in the list box.