Dear Joe Lewis Wilkins, sorry but I don't have the time to write about this topic, but you may have a look at my "Mainly Dialogs..." alias "Herbie's Dialogs" source code that can be accessed from Staz's Home Page. There you will find an approach that proved useful for my shareware programs. Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: *************************************** (snip) ...Though I have some ideas and techniques that I, personally, use, I'd love to have someone volunteer to write a short explanation about some of the ways we can handle errors in our programs to make them user friendly. ANY TAKERS? If not, then you'll have to suffer through another one of MY offerings. If you don't want to write it, perhaps you can send me some "thoughts" on the subject that will make what I might write more meaningful. *************************************** Best, Herbie ************************ H.Glu@...