Hi Jack

You can also work with api's. for this solution you will need the MessageCatcher ActiveX from Venelina Jordanova (Download ID: 15214) and some windows api.

Windows API:
RegisterWindowMessage
SendMessage/PostMessage
FindWindow

you can now register a 'message' you can send to any other (or all) applications and 'catch' that message with the MessageCatcher and point from there to anything you whant to do.

I have used this to update a new userid in a second app when the user in the first app changes. if i anderstand windows correctly that is how MS windows fires most events/methods between application. for example if you press a key, a message is send from windows to the foremost application which intercepts that message and fires the appropriate action.

hope that helps

gunnar