What do you mean by 'best'? The issue is rather what is the purpose of your Window; keyboard and mouse input is always available. The best things in life are not things.

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Thanks for the very helpful reply. This confirms what I had surmised. I'll check out the book too; I've run into many problems along the way that has been quite frustrating. I'm considering a re-write of the server side in Java for it's cross platform compatibility and so I'd like as much information up front during the design phase. Thanks again.

It occurs to me -- what's the support for Direct2D in Vista, XP and Win2K? Do you have any idea about this?

Whatever... :confused: The prompt asks whether this was helpful; yes or no, not rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 -- Your response was, in essence, "if it's still running, then it's still running". I don't bother someone else until I have done my work, eliminating the obvious. I guess honesty isn't the best policy.