Dear Herbie, You wrote a while back: > the much I like Carbon Events, the less I like my > finding that calling the Carbon Event Loop (Toolbox > Routine: RunApplicationEventLoop) -- without any > other code -- occupies 335 kB of RAM. Good old > Handleevents... To what extent are Handleevents, CALL SYSTEMTASK and other old regime event-servicing routines available in Carbon? Excuse my innocence! Cheers Laurent S.