>That's a good idea to tie to _Screen, George. I use a Global App Obj and attach properties for systemwide usage to it; I have also run into the need to CLEAR ALL, which can make the Global Object go Bye-bye....

Irv,

That's exactly what I was getting at. I thought that I had discovered something clever when I figured this out. Then I had the opportunity to read KiloFox and, as you might expect, Marcia, Andy and Rick beat me to it.< g > The really neat thing is that even with an SDI application, the _SCREEN object is still there for you.