No I didn't, thank you. Could I do something like: set the activeWindow = window "mainmovie" Thanks for your help!!! Did you try setting the activeWindwo back to the main movie? At 4:45 PM -0400 6/4/01, Gene Fritzinger wrote: >Hello List, >I have a director movie with many MIAWs. One of the MIAW has an >exitFrame script that checks for the character count of four field >members. When the char.count reaches "10" , a custom handler is >called which rounds the date from the field forward to the next >Saturday and another date from a field backward to the previous >Sunday. This functionality works fine until I open another MIAW >which allows the user to interactively select a date range which >then populates those fields members I spoke of earlier. The problem >is, after that last MIAW closes after populating the fields, the >exitFrame script which checks the character count no longer works. >I'm closing my MIAWs by setting variables, and allowing the main >movie to kill the windows. It just seems like control is not >rerturning to the movie with the field members and so the exitFrame >script is not executing. I know this explanation of my problem is >vague, but if anyone could suggest possible areas to look at, please >d! >! >o. > >Thanks, >g fritzinger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]