Launching a Select Query with Parameters

[Ray Stakenas]

While I'm far from new to programming, I'm very new to VAJ ... and now a bit frustrated.
I have a form with a text box, a button, and a list box. The text box is connected to a parameter to a select query. The button is connected to the execute method for the query. Pressing the button does NOTHING.
VAJ 'doc' says that I have to execute the text box to get the parameter transferred to the query and I need a 'connection' to do this.
No connection I have tried to make has had the desired effect. There's even a neat 'beforeexecute' trigger on the connection from the text box to the select parm ... but that doesn't do anything.
I'm obviously missing something very very basic. Anybody know what it is?
Tks
-Ray