Pete- Monday, February 7, 2011, 6:41:58 PM, you wrote: > Thanks Jacqueline. I guess I should look again at the IDE script > and see what it does after a control has been dropped onto a card, I > bet that would reveal all! Try setting the hilitecolor of the templatestack to empty while you're setting the other properties. -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net