Jay,

Re: I'd be interested (as well as others, I'm sure) in hearing what you come up with to resolve your various design constraints.

See Cetin's reply to my post which includes full Win API declarations and everything. I just tried it and it works great. This capability opens up a lot of options for creating 'rich interactive surfaces' for input including Intellisense and SmartTag capabilities!

Re: The interactivity of HTML pages is seductive, isn't it? <g>

Strongly agree! I find that more and more of my customers are 'demanding' features that I would classify as 'eye candy'. While the logical and pragmatic side of me wants to explain that a form is a form is a form - the salesman side of me want to shout that a car is not a car is not a car when you consider the difference in price between a basic car and a sexy import/sports car. Sure both types of cars provide basic transportation (and in fact the basic car may do an even better job on the transportation part), but the sexier car is what people are willing to pay premium money for! :)

Thanks again for your feedback on this thread!

Regards,
Malcolm