I don't want to pollute the list but if you have a minute take a look at the third post concerning modeless dialogs. http://www.allbasic.info/forum/index.php?topic=794.0 Thanks, James -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple