I'm glad that someone has finally began to discuss this hOS.dll in an example type setting, especially using a statusbar because I've read the document that came with the dll and to be honest I for some reason could not grasp how to get things done but I am beginning to understand it much more now that I am reading this post. Thanks to everyone that is contributing in this discussion because I'm actually learning something now. The mdx dll's were simple for me but this one for some unknown reason I'm baffeled... or atleast I was.