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Burt, The TCL does not use the Mac List Manager. That's why it doesn't suffer from the many limitations of the List Manager. In the TCL, you'll usually use an ArrayPane which is a Table set up to use an Array. The Table provides all the user interface for a list; the Array provides the data. ArrayPane and Table are two classes that are always subclassed. AppMaker generates a subclass for you that has a GetCellText method. That method accesses the associated Array (or other data structure) for cell (x,y) and returns a string. You don't have two copies of the data; you just have whatever data structure is convenient for you and GetCellText accesses that data structure. There is an initialization method for the list subclass which is where you would normally put the code to set the number of rows of the list. AppMaker generates a call to AddRow to add four rows for testing purposes. Look at our AMReminder example and you'll see a list that is built dynamically at runtime. Spec