>Could have to do with the way VFP is handling the system messages. If I had to >hazard a guess, that's probably the problem. Unfortunately, this is outside >the realm of my knowledge. Perhaps someone else might have an idea. You might >want to post the original VB code, however. There might be something there >that might give us more of a clue

George

The link for the VB source code is here

If you look at the link you'll see I've stripped it to the bones and just got the declaration and the parameters from it. At the start it seemed like a 5 minute job to do but.....

Anyways, what the heck, it's Friday afternoon - playtime!

Paul