I aksed: > How do we set the text (string of blobs) of a control type > kControlEditTextPasswordProc from our app? Oops! Please ingnore my previous post. I was trying to insert more than 31 chars (think that's the password limit) def SetButtonData(btnID, kControlEditTextPart, kControlEditTextPasswordTag,fn GetHandleSize(textH),#[textH]) seems to work Bernie