>In further working with the code snippets posted, and comparing them >to the converted pascal routine (which looks identical) I was still >unable to achieve the results I expected to see from reading the >docs at the apple site. Correct me if I am mistaken, but I am under the >impression that calling the SndRecord function should pop up a dialog >with stop, start, pause, play and resume recording controls. I seem to >get nothing, and my call returns -108 which is not listed in the docs. Try the sound recording code on my web site. I know it works because I use the code in one of my apps. Download it at: http://users.aol.com/AlStaff/MacSoftware/BASIC/FBSndRecord.sit Al Staffieri Jr. AlStaff@... http://members.aol.com/AlStaff/index.html