Thanks Celtin, it works great! I do appreciate your expert advice.

Glenn

>>Does anyone know how to make the CalDate OCX open the calendar when the control gets focus or when a user clicks on it?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>I don't know what the Caldate.ocx is but I found this works with Datetimepicker, Monthview controls. Should work with it too :
>(Emulating a user clicking on dropdown arrow)
>

>#define WM_LBUTTONDOWN 0x0201
>#define WM_SYSKEYDOWN  0x0104
>#define WM_SYSKEYUP    0x0105
>
>#define VK_MENU 12
>#define VK_DOWN 28
>
>LOCAL lnHWND
>LOCAL ARRAY arrDLL[1]
>ADLLS(arrDLL)
>IF ASCAN(arrDLL,'SendMessage',1,-1,1,1+2+4) = 0
>	declare integer SendMessage IN WIN32API ;
>		integer hwnd, integer Msg, integer Wparam, integer lParam
>endif	
>lnHwnd = This.hWnd
>*lnHwnd = Thisform.Oledatectrl.hWnd
>SendMessage(lnHwnd,WM_LBUTTONDOWN,0,0)
>SendMessage(lnHwnd,WM_SYSKEYDOWN,VK_MENU+VK_DOWN,0)
>SendMessage(lnHwnd,WM_SYSKEYUP,VK_MENU+VK_DOWN,0)
>

Cetin