yip, think it got truncated. I've had numerous headaches posting kixpop examples ... ever since this BBS was HTML enabled [Frown]

Just for the uninitiated - kixpop.exe is a non-COM commandline utility that can "present" and "interact" (somewhat) with user written HTML files. Under the covers, it's basically a container program for the Internet Explorer WebBrowser2 object - which is basically what IEXPLORE.EXE really is, just without all the fancy menus and toolbars (one of the reasons why iexplore.exe is so small - under 100K) [Wink]

From a coding standpoint, Kixpop leverages the same "technology" that those browser-based POPUP windows use - the Internet Explorer Dialog Object. Input strings can be "passed" to the dialog object via the commandline, along with other things like "ambience" settings (width,height,windows adornments). Using HTML scripting, one "parses-out" the passed parameters and can show them to the user using DHTML.

Kixpop then waits for the dialog to be closed. That can happen when the user clicks a user-defined button, or, if the user closes the dialog box using the X button. Using HTML scripting, the returned data is then "packaged" and "sent" back to Kixpop - which in turn, "pipes" it out to the DOS console. This can be redirected into a file for later parsing by the Kixtart script.

Rocco, if you might, can you email me your script and HTML ? WOuld love to have a lookie.