never one to shy away from answering my own question i've brought you all a version of a solution to the 'listbox problem'

i have been working through the debug process on this problem and think i have an answer ...

Change the subroutine TheListBox_Click to TheListBox_GotFocus:

sub TheListBox_GotFocus { 
        my $ListSelection = $theListBox->SelectedItem(); 
        print ",$ListSelection\n"; 
}
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hope this helps :)!