Thanks "zhu_lin" for the quick reply, it works fine now. :-D

Comparing an enum will be much faster. Steve

Hi, You have to develop your own control. See below links: 1) Custom Control Development[^] 2) Creating Custom Controls[^] 3) Custom Controls with the .NET Compact Framework[^] Hope that this may be help. :) Pavan Pareta

I have posted a query there but had received no reply yet....?

Sorry I don't have any code that I can find, I just seem to remember doing this sort of thing. I had a quick look on the net... and found an MS MFC example [^] which should translate to ATL. What have you tried?