>Sylvain,
> The info you provided in your message was very helpful, I get the idea now. My problem was I had a wait clear in the next line which of coursed cleared my window. Thanks for your help.
>Carl

One other item to note about this technique. You should also add a CLEAR TYPEAHEAD command just after the Sleep function. While waiting, any keystrokes the end user types in get queued up the keyboard buffer. If you don't clear them, depending on your application, unknown problems could occur.