Can someone tell me how to get text from a resource and put the styled text into a appearance compliant control? eg I get the text handle with: resHndl = FN GETRESOURCE(_"pG3t",gObjResID) and set the controls with: btnH = fn NewControl(windowPtr,gObjT,"", _zTrue, 0, 0, 0, _kControlStaticTextProc, 0 ) err = fn SetControlData(btnH, 0, _kControlStaticTextTextTag, ????, ????) but what goes in where the ???? are? Also what about style data? Do I need to use: _kControlStaticTextStyleTag ? Am I having fun yet? David PS - looks like we lost our other stats programmer - darn...