I re-posted the echo script with some improved windows management "features".

Why can't I get KiX to set initial focus to the dialog box ?

Yeah, comments help.

I'm such a doh-head for not commenting any of this stuff. Will strive to improve in that regard !

Is it starting to "click" yet - me thinks in your case - it is !

By the way, if if you remove the sleep 1 from the script, the application becomes more responsive but at the cost of CPU utilization.

Run task manager while "dialoging" to see for yourself. KiX needs more granularity in it's sleep command, example sleep 0.100 (milliseconds).

Shawn.