Yes, but I may have picked a poor example <s>. My point was that the 'template' provides me with the visual cues of the default _potential_ behavior that may or may not need to be modified. And I don't have to remember all the stinking numbers and/or names. Call me lazy.

>Everyone of your case statements is handled by a method call which hides the actual implemenation of the ActiveX control. Now, you can add an instance of that class to your form, and isntead of worrying about the CommEvent property or case statements, you can just override the method(s) you want.
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>Does that make sense?