>>>Balloon Help eats big white unsightly holes in the black screen that >>>don't go away. Even my control strip left a white hole when I closed it. > >For some reason, neither Balloon Help nor Control Strip are causing a >window refresh event to occur. _Any_ following refresh event will "clean >up" the holes, but I don't know how to get one any earlier. I'm running system 8.1 and get update events when using balloon help just fine. This is not balloon help that I have written but is from the Finder. Charlie Dickman charlied@...