I found that "Windows Forms Programming in C#" to be an overall excellent book on intermidiate to advanced levels. Written by Chris Sells, published by Addison Wesley. ISBN # 0-321-11620-8. He covers Custom controls in much detail! Good Luck

Yeah, a separate thread yes. I've known how to start different threads and whatnot, just didn't ever know how to wait for one to finish without some kind of event. Thanks.

I've found so far that Firefox and IE are fairly similar when using gdi to determine the size of fonts. I'll have to check out my margin and whatnot to see if that's where I'm getting my problem from.

Sweet, thanks for the quick replys. Arun My application that uses the third party tool is not multithreaded. Daniel Yeah, I saw that in the task manager, that's what led me to believing that the multi cpu was the problem because when I did set the affinity to just one cpu it works great. parths Sweet, I'll have to try that out and see if I can limit it using that call. UPDATE: I tried that SetProcessAffinityMask method and it worked like a charm. I added what I did to the www.pinvoke.net/[^] collection. Love that site. Thanks for you help.

Heath Stewart wrote: If you're talking about native DLLs (which you most likely are since you're viewing the EAT with DUMPBIN), this is not even possible. That's really good to know. Thanks a ton Heath. Looks like you're answering everybody's questions today.