Darin,
        sorry for the delay - because they pay you money at work they take 
your life. You are right about a bunch of pointers in the code. They needed 
toasting! I had them there because I had assumed the LValue problem was due 
to a bad pointer. The key thing was obvious and that was that Timestruct.sec 
was an array not an int and consequently could not be assigned an int value. 
Ta.
        However, even with the LValue fixed |-( the wretched code still does 
not produce a live display of the time on the dialog box. It needs a way 
around these wretched transfer structs. I'll look at it.
                                regards Steve
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