>no problem, i think the agent is kind-da cool, but i have realy never worked with it until it
>came up here on UT. my problem is, i can only get to show the baloon but not the character
>itself. i used the sample from microsoft for vfp, tryied different setings and methods, but
>nothing (working on XP)

Do you have that Agent installed? Do you have an error handler in force that might be masking an error?

What code are you using?