George-

Yes, the relative and absolute position of the control is simple enough to handle. And the resulting pos. can be inexact. The whole point is to make a WAIT WINDOW pop up somewhere *near* where the user is looking :-). Trivial, eh? Oh, well. It drives me NUTS that a wait window appears, like, 6 *thousand miles* from what it is refering to. :)

Thanks, again. I'll try some of these ideas in a bit and post results.