>Hi David.
>
>>Does anyone have another idea on how to get a wait state for my while loop so >>winsock can update itself?

>declare Sleep in Win32API integer nMilliseconds
>Sleep(1000)

Doug,

PMFJI, but even a call to Sleep() won't yield control to the ActiveX control...

David, have you tried AutoYield?

If that won't work then I don't know a way around this except to wrap your WinSock stuff in an EXE and use DOEVENTS...