>>Hmm... well maybe you could use a listbox to display the last 100 messages that you also log to a file. Then have a button the lets you open the logfile with notepad. Perhaps you could create a new log file every hour or whatever.
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>I prefer to have everything there as if it would be a Notepad file. Maybe there is a control in there that exists that would allow me to instantiate an object of a Notepad file so I'll be more secure if the log gets too big.

You can shell execute notepad. But, I would also have concerns about the log getting to big. Is this a continually running process or does it have a definate start/stop point.

If continually running and logging I would go for some type rolling log files as I mentioned before, and only show the most recent X items on your form/control as a quick status type display.

BOb