Thanks for the suggesstion but I wanted to make it quick and dirty (it did look ugly in VFP %-) ).

>>Basically Im a FPD25 guy and flexing my VFP muscles using CodeBook 6.1 (still a starters).
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>Oh, I see. In that case, I want to add a suggestion which I preferred not to mention earlier.
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>@...say, get is supposed to be used for backward compatibility. The new, VFP, way of doing things, is to put the options (TextBoxes) and a CommandButton ("OK") on a form.
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>The action would be carried out from the Click() event of the CommandButton.
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>I am not sure, however, whether you should include this change: if you use a form, you no longer have a single file, unless you create the form programatically, which is usually more work than creating it visually.
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>Hilmar.