Access Form and Controls cannot capture user's selection in VBA

Are you saying that you are trying to manipulate a form using OLE automation?  What is an autoexec.bat?  Are you saying that you have an autoexec macro that opens the form?  Where is the code that is attempting to manipulate the form running?  What you are describing sounds like a focus issue.

I set the listbox dblclick event to grab its selection

Please post the code and make sure that the procedure header is included so we can see the event if that is where the code is running.

Many versions ago, an AutoExec macro was needed to open a specific form when a database was opened.  For quite a while now, you can do this by specifying the form in the database's Options dialog:


So I recommend dumping the Autoexec macro (I assume that is what it is, not an actual batch file as in older versions of Windows), and selecting the form in the Options dialog.

Then, please post your DblClick code so we can see if there are any problems with it.  For comparison, here is some sample DblClick code for working with a single-select listbox:

Private Sub lstCompanies_DblClick(Cancel As Integer)
'Created by Helen Feddema 22-Jul-2016
'Last modified by Helen Feddema 22-Jul-2016

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler

   Dim strCompanyName As String

   strCompanyName = Me![lstCompanies].Column(1)
   
   Me![txtSelectedCompany].Value = strCompanyName
      
ErrorHandlerExit:
   Exit Sub

ErrorHandler:
   MsgBox "Error No: " & Err.Number _
      & " in " & Me.ActiveControl.Name & " procedure; " _
      & "Description: " & Err.Description
   Resume ErrorHandlerExit
   
End Sub

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Autoexec.bat
It is the autoexec part that may be causing some consternation.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the DOS days, autoexec.bat started all your TSR (terminate and stay resident) background processes.  Any DOS and Win9x O/S parsed the autoexec.bat file and ran it.  For giggles, you can name your logon script autoexec.bat, and if your AD or TS profile has that file as its logon script, or if it is in the Start Up folder of the start menu, it gets run.  And if you are old school enough to remember that the file that ran at startup was autoexec.bat, you may very well keep that name.

Access also used that terminology.  To this day, if you have a macro named autoexec, it gets run when Access starts.  I have one.  It calls a VBA function that then does a whole whack of things, including refreshing all the linked tables based on the folder that the database was started from.
The possibilities of what you can do with autoexec in Access are limited only by what you can do in VBA (virtually anything) and not just firing up a starting form.

That all being said, @edison04 has a TS environment that opens an Access database on logon.  I've got that, too.  I don't think any of that is pertinent to the grief at hand, though.

I set the listbox dblclick event to grab its selection (multiselected=none), but the code cannot get the selection. I have tried many different ways.

A double-click in a TS environment might be problematic.  The difference between a double-click and two clicks is all about timing -- and TS may screw that up.

So let's try something for fun.  Put a command button beside the listbox.  Put your capture code in the command box's click event.  Select something in the listbox.  Click the button.  Does THAT work correctly on the first try?  If so, maybe my hunch is right.

Sorry about that Autoexec.bat comment!  very tired. Yeah, it was a macro I named Autoexec.

It was the Security settings. The last version of Access I coded in was mostly 2002 with a little 2007. So I didn't know about the trust settings.

Allowing the network to be trusted took care of the problem. Thanks for all the responses. David thanks for recognizing those symptoms and for your help.

Thanks for your help David.