>Hi Christof - that works beautifully.
>I will see if i adjust some of the dynamics to align the two boxes.
>
>great stuff - thanks for your help.

Just an idea... how about making the form headerless and borderless, as is done in tooltips?

I have such a form class... properties go like this:

BORDERSTYLE=1
CLOSABLE=.F.
COLORSOURCE=0
MAXBUTTON=.F.
MINBUTTON=.F.
sizebox=.F.
TITLEBAR=0