Cetin, I understand your point and my intuition tells me you are right not to generate the maps in this way. However, it works so very well I am tempted to pursue this method ... especially if a slowish closedown is the main price to pay. The advantage of adding the objects as I do is that the classed labels have properties responding to clicks, mouse movements, etc. Also, I can choose a wide range of symbols and text linked to the label captions, setting these from relevant DBF map style fields. I’m not sure I can get this same flexibility in another way (drawing lines and boxes?). Using a graph interface, I don’t think I have the same close control of the points or other elements of my map module such as the map grid and related buttons specific to this app. Well, I daresay I could discover a way to link an existing graph app - I’ve tickered with msgraph and haven’t got very far frankly. With a grid, do you mean each grid cell is a potential point? I did try this before but it lacked the x/y resolution I need. Denis