>>That's probably because you didn't set Alias property yet.
>>Thisform.Dataenvironment.Addobject("CursorX","Cursor")
>>Thisform.Dataenvironment.CursorX.Buffermodeoverride =2
>>Thisform.Dataenvironment.CursorX.Alias="Cli_name"
>>SELECT Cli_name && now it should work
>Wow--I thought this was going to be it, but alas, or alias, it still says "Alias 'Cli_name' not found"

.CursorX.Alias = "Cli_name"
.CursorX.CursorSource = "Cli_name"

One of these posts I'll get it right....