Hilmar,

>First of all, thanks for al the valuable information you provide.

You're quite welcome

>>>Did I understand correctly: In this case, some things can be done by creating a script file (as a text-file), and executing it?
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>>Sort of, kind of...
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>>With the Popup method, for example, however, there'd be no way to return the result.
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>I see. That would be quite a problem, then.

Yeppers!

>>Something like Sleep, OTOH, would work since no value has to be returned. I'd say, however, that it's probably much more efficient to just declare the API call and use that.
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>And, I understand there is more guarantee that the API is available on all machines.

Sleep was available in Win 3.x. The WSH has been around only since Win98. However, since Win95 is no longer supported, and the installation program for the WSH is freely re-distributable, I've never considered it much of a problem to do an install of it if necessary. Further, at the latest, it's a required component beginning with Win2K.

>>BTW, VFP 7.0's Intellisense does a great job of exposing the properties. Since the parameter lists are shown as well, it makes it really easy to deal with any COM object.
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>Still waiting for version 7 - sigh.

My sympathies.< s >