Another thought is, can I just use the variable to reference the control? ie. sLabelName[i].text, GetDlgItemText(sControlName[i], sTemp); Eric

braune wrote: The problem is that I need cUsb to update a Static text box on the CUsbDlg form. Ok, so what's the problem? One way to achieve what you want is to have the CUsbIo class post messages back to CUsbDlg. In the handler for those messages, update the static controls. "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

I think your tool will hang the timer too (timers act through windows messages). If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.