tlerner wrote: I am trying to Overlap an image (bitmap, jpg, whatever) onto a live video stream. DirectShow is perfect for this. It supports mixing video streams (or videos streams and a static bitmap) natively. Look up the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR). Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Yea, it seems that the parent window doesn't get the KEYUP message with me either and that was the problem I was having. I solved this problem by adding a message handler to the IDC_EDIT for EN_CHANGE messages. That worked great. I dont understand how or why it works with a rich edit, but who knows...and at this point who cares. Its done! Thanks for the help.