Hey y'all... I find that an app I write that uses a statement like: FN ALERT(999,_nil) (don't worry about the syntax) looks fine on a system 8.0 machine, but on a system 7.0 machine, has a big, black, rounded rectangle around the text in the alert(yuck!) So two questions: 1. What, other than _nil, are the parameters for FN ALERT? (So I can get rid of the giant ring...) 2. How do I make the button on the alert so that you can just hit the enter key to make it go away? ~ I heart Apple ~ -- TJ Grant (tatewake@...) Inspired Communications. http://inspired.netstreet.net/ Phone: 407-728-7563