@januson
Thanks for the reply - sorry if I insulated - I really couldn't figure you out.
Nice to meet another developer.
For What It Is Worth - one of the reasons my app is so much faster is that I scrapped all of the .Net controls - no buttons, no list, no sliders, no nothing.
Kept the Form however.
Used GDI wrappers to create my own graphic's environment, write down to the hit map (bit blt-ing and all, event handlers,...)
Considered going straight to GDI - that would have been too much work.
The reason I am telling you this is, few folks in their right mind would try this - but I had too - it is really fast, and I needed speed.
If you ever have a need for anything like this or you want to pick my brain on any programming subject (hopefully this geezer can keep up with you) let me know.
Take care!