Elf and others, Yaa, that's what we're trying to figure out how to do. The problem is that, in the NetBeans platform, the yellow lightbulbs and code completion windows don't actually accept or fire focus or property change events, because the editor maintains focus so the user can type. Further, NetBeans stores these in separate subsystems, and we haven't found any obvious way to force it to inform us when those windows appear programmatically. Now, there is one exception. When we write code completion utilities for a custom language, we can be informed when those fire. So, realistically, there must be some way to tap into that for other, arbitrary languages, in NetBeans, maybe through some kind of module registration or lookup service. But how to do it, on a technical level, is still a bit of a mystery to us. Our best guess right now is that a service architecture is going to have to be written into NetBeans source directly, which can then inform us when such windows are present. Anyway, the technical details have been surprisingly difficult for this one. Who knows, we could be missing something obvious :) Stefik __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind