dodefault()
thisform.showtips=not thisform.showtips
this.refresh

seemed to be a reasonable bit of code to put in the click of a command button which lets the user turn the tooltips on and off.

(in the command button refresh I set the caption depending on the value of showtips)

so why doesn't it work?

Or to be more precise and more confusing, why does it work only Once!

Harry