>Just thinking outloud here, but, is it possible that you got more characters than 256? I would change the line
>strData = SPACE(256) to strData = SPACE(bytesTotal) and see what happens
>
>[Update]Oh, looking at the code in the Wiki, it's author not only uses the above, but also calls GetData like this This.GetData(@lcBuffer, , tnByteCount )

I'm not sure I understand much about the bytesTotal and tnByteCount. Is this something I'm calculating and then passing? When I use the OLE (MSWinSck.ocx) it doesn't care how much I send it.