Hi George! Just one thought: may be when you try to get a handle to child window, you got the handle to control on the form (like button)... It's because I tried the same but from CmdButton Click() event. >That was my thought as well, so I moved the assignment statement to the >.GotFocus event of the command button. Didn't make a difference. I would >think that not only would the window being on top, but active as well, >before this event would fire. Any ideas you have in this area would