Hi Greg, Thats really cool! You've got me going now. What we need is a way to have 'create_text' inherit from Entry. We need someone who nows Tk well enough to build one that have a 'create_text_entry' object. Thanks for sharing the ideas. Joe Robertson 256-730-8216 jmrober1 at ingr.com jmrobert at ro.com http://ro.com/~jmrobert/