Thanks, was simpler than I thought. Had tried searching, just should have thought a bit more about what i was searching for, it was a long night.

I want to iterate through the Controls on a form using a For loop to find the JLists then create an array of the selected items on certain JLists by JList name hopefully In vb I would do something like: For each ctrl in me.controls if ctrl.name="abc" then [do something] end if Next