>>>Why would it not sometimes click? I see that a button to click on has a focus but no click happens. Any idea?
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>>The dialog has to have focus in order to process Windows messages sent to its controls.
>Seems to me it does. If I hit tab I see how a focus is moving thru dialog's controls.

This is similar to my old approach: sprinkling DoEvents generously helps,
but won't make it watertight. This is one of the rare cases were the activeX
is the odd man - not vfp, as a vb implementation was about the same in reliability.

HTH

thomas