Good: tenacity wins, eventually. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

bingo! needed just a fresh eye. Been at it for more then a week now. Started with directx to find out the obvious and finally hooked up with this kludge. Works fine now. I'll upload the finished code when done as an addition to the XP version. Added commandline switches for toggling