Just to say thanks for your reply,
This is useful. Partly because one of the blocks I have with learning to program is finding a use for it that repays the time and effort involved in learning, apart from the satisfaction of having the additional knowledge itself of course . As Direct X seems to be becoming more interesting from the point of view of customising the GUI and this is vbs as far as I know, this may well be a practical place to start.
Cheers - The Journeyman