>While I love showing the versatility of VFP, I have to ask, why re-invent the wheel?
Yes, I agree on that one. And that is probably the reason I don't have any practical experience with these techniques.
Some people simply want to lock the application after a certain timeout, but I didn't see the need for this in my own applications.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)