Thank you Martin.

Please in absolutely no way see anything I received from Si_the_geek, or elsewhere in this thread, as anything less than 100% helpful and most gratefully received, as has been the case with several other of my posts to which Si and others have been good enough to respond.

I have on occasions seen posts which somewhat deride the lack of knowledge of newcomers, but these have been very rare, and all in the past.

There have been occasions when contributors have said , in effect, "we will not write code, just help you to write your own". This is totally understandable, but from the perspective of a newcomer to VB6 programming there is great merit in having a demmo program to run, investigate and come to understand. Such VB ability as I learnt was from a few good textbooks which talked you through complete program projects and explained to you step by step what you were doing. Thus I commend to contributors the writing of simple but complete illustrative programs for people. This should not, of course, amount to the writing of commercial programs nor to the doing of students' taskwork.

Sometimes I find the responses in the Forum to be aimed above the VB heads of the people making the enquiry.

All said this is an excellent Forum. I often wonder how it is financed - it must cost money.

I for one would be very happy to pay an annual fee for membership.

Administrator may choose to delete this message from thread, since it is not strictly on-topic, but I hope the message is received. A PM could be sent.

camoore

Wales, UK