> Al, can you be more specific? If you're right there is another important > bug lurking. If you're wrong you just scaring us Big Time :-) First let me state that I'm using the CD version of FB^3 (i'm not on the beta list/team). I was doing a "trial" conversion of my app just to get a feel of FB^3, so I would be familiar with it when version 1 is released. In my hurricane tracking program, users can place locations on any of McHurricane's maps by entering the location's name, latitude and longitude. The locations are kept in a preference file. When I finally got my app running in FB^3 the locations were not being plotted on the maps... that's when I reported the original problem/bug. When Staz responded with the fix... the locations still would not plot. Took a wild guess and moved the strings behind the intergers (when passing parameters) and the locations plotted correctly. In the below example I'm passing 8 parameters. Originally when trying to find a fix I reduced parametes to as few as 6, still with no luck on the bug until I flip-flopped the intergers and strings. I then moved back to 8 parametes without any problems. I have pref set to use dimmedVarsOnly. This is a edited/simplified version of how things work... names have been changed to protect the innocent :-) '======================================= LOCAL FN plotLocOnMap(xPs%,yPs%,colr%,sze%,styl%,nam$,lat$,lon$) '--------------------------------------- [do the plot thing here] END FN '======================================= LOCAL FN addLocsToMap '--------------------------------------- numOfElem% = gNmAltBasLocs% - 1 FOR x% = 0 TO numOfElem% tNam$ = AtlBas.lName$(x%) tLat$ = AtlBas.lLat$(x%) tLon$ = AtlBas.lLon$(x%) xPos% = AtlBas.textX%(x%) yPos% = AtlBas.textY%(x%) tColor% = AtlBas.lColor%(x%) tSize% = AtlBas.lTxSize%(x%) tStyle% = AtlBas.lStyle%(x%) mrkr% = AtlBas.marker%(x%) gAD_mrkr% = mrkr% 'had to make this global because of the parameter limit FN plotLocOnMap(xPos%,yPos%,tColor%,tSize%,tStyle%,tNam$,tLat$,tLon$) NEXT END FN '-------------------------------------- The above example would not work when parameters were set like this.... FN plotLocOnMap(tNam$,tLat$,tLon$,xPos%,yPos%,tColor%,tSize%,tStyle%) The variables would be holding this type of info... tNam$ = "Victoria" tLat$ = "28.8" tLon$ = "97.0" xPos% = 2 yPos% = -13 tColor% = _zRed 'or _zBlack or _zBlue (only) tSize% = 9 'font pt size (9,10,12 only) tStyle% = _boldBit% 'or _nil gAD_mrkr% = _true or _false 'user can have locations without a marker Note that the xPos% and yPos% are for where the location's name is to be placed on the map in relation to the marker. The marker's pixel coordinates are calculated based off the latitude and longitude. HTH, Al ================================================= McHurricane: Macintosh Storm Tracking Software http://members.aol.com/stormeye email: aboyd@... =================================================