>

>.SelectedItem = .Nodes(1)
>cnodekey = .SelectedItem.key
>.SelectedItem = .NULL.
>? .Nodes(cnodekey).Text
>

My efforts were with lisview (appologies for mixing ocx's). A .NULL. variable is not an object (where as: a node is!) - so that may explain the datatype errors.

I looked at my "episode" and found that this is how I got the data error.
.SelectedItem = .NULL.
?.SelectedItem.Text

I may have miswrote the data failure I experience with listview. After you try it that way - check it from this angle:
.SelectedItem.Selected=.f.
?.SelectedItem.Text

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>Also .SelectedItem can certainly have a .NULL. value when the tree is first populated. I don't know exactly when this gets assigned but it could be as late as Tree.GotFocus()
>
Yes - I think that Onfocus (oops, GotFocus) is when it happens.

>Regards,
>Viv