I have a tiny window in which a colored box is painted while the app is running in the background. I do a PICTURE ON - PICTURE OFF,myBox& thing that then gets placed on the scrapbook. Everything works fine except the box doesn't get to scrapbook as it does when the app is up front. Also, it would be nice to have a custom cursor while the action was taking place. I can't seem to get that to work either. I'm putting the final touches on RGB Calc III. The white-sampling bug on some machines was apparently related to the hot spot of the sampler cursor since substituting the customary eyedrop cursor fixed the problem. -Warren