You didnt put an UpdateWindow in your paint handler, did you? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Lea, can't say I've ever had this problem. I presume you are refering to the WIN32 API version of LoadString? Looking at it in the MSDN my first guess was that maybe you are having buffer problems, NT being UNICODE and Win98 being...well what is it exactly? ;) (sorry that was not very helpfull was it). My advice is to try using the API call GetLastError(), which will return you an error code (that may have been set by the LoadString call). There is an error list in the MSDN some where which will help you decipher what the error code means. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.

We do seem to have amazingly similar problems in spite of the applications being quite different. My application is for subitem editing of a list control, which also uses overlapped windows. So thank you for mentioning SetWindowPos. There are so many functions like it and the documentation does not make it clear that SetWindowPos would be useful in my situation. I think that something else I would have tried instead is BeginDeferWindowPos, EndDeferWindowPos and DeferWindowPos. I do not understand exactly what they do and how they work but they might be useful when the z-order of multiple windows needs to be specified. Are they not relevant to you situation?