>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!) Hm... That rounded rect looks a lot like the border around the default button, doesn't it? My guess is that the text item is the first item in the DITL. The FN ALERT command builds an alert and draws a border around the first item in the alert's DITL, no matter what kind of item it is. To solve your problem, make the button you want as default the first item in the DITL (using ResEdit's renumber items command). This should also make it so that when the user presses the return key it's treated as if he'd clicked the default button. Pontus Ilbring ------------------------------------------------------------------- | e-mail: "Pontus" <poliruir@...> | Visit my Escape Velocty page at <http://www.ettnet.se/~poliruir/ev> ------------------------------------------------------------------- (This message was constructed without the use of any Microsoft products)