I like it.

Hi Hilton, I did know that and thats what I've been doing but I've had this nagging feeling that there was a cooler way all the gurus where using and I wasn't in on it. But that'll do me, cheers. "Do not inflate plain things into marvels, but reduce marvels to plain things." - Francis Bacon

Worked like a charm, thank you very much :-D:-D:-D Try not! Do or do not, there is no try. - Master Yoda

hehe, I see!!

Brilliant, exactly what I need, thanks :-D The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Aesop

Actually thats a very good idea, I remember hearing something about 'Cassini' and hosting asp.net runtime in a windows form. Im just worried thats theres some big gotcha that will bring the whole idea to a halt. Has anybody had any success with that approach. Kentamanos wrote: I'd look at it as a learning opportunity LOL, its true, you do learn more on 'nightmare' projects, whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger and all that ;) Thanks.

Hi Eyan, Thanks for your tips, greatly appreciated :D. We did manage to get a little bit more money out of her, so its a little less painful now ;) Happy holidays to you.

NikV wrote: the main problem you face is that station managers/advertising managers want to have very specific rules governing the way ads are played, and telling them that your mathematical algorithm won't let them schedule an ad 2 times a day, except on a full moon which happens to be a sunday they want it played 6 times, is just not going to cut it LOL, I hear that, I've done this for several broadcasts now and they do want different rules every time. Thanks for your suggestions , there's alot of food for thought for me there. I may not build the most perfect solution but I hope I can incorporate some of your ideas. A combination of flexible code and stern client management is in order I think ;) Thanks very much for your help.

Hi David, Thanks for the link, it was very interesting. However I still cant see how the parent thread can be called when you are not working with windows forms, for example if you are working in a console app. I myself am specifically working with a class instantiated from the main form but not the main form itself. I tried inheriting from Control but this didnt work. What I need is the equivalent of Control.BeginInvoke but which can be used outside a form. Is it impossible ?

The mono project is located at www.go-mono.com[^] HTH Andy