in the current VFP version you can't (it is probably safe to assume that the next version will have it - so it would be win97 complient) what I did here is to make all the object mouse aware - i.e. when a control has the mouse over it - it "turns off" any mouse effect in other controls (using a SETALL) Arnon > >How can I tell when the mouse leaves an object? I'm using MouseMove to >display something when mouse is above the object, but I want to hide it >(make invisible) when mouse is no longer over the object. It's a grid >column, so there aren't a lot of events to work with... > >