sounds about right to me Imahilus, i shall do some googling/reading up. thank you.
it sounds vaguely what i had in mind with my While statements or more should i say thats what i wanted to do. thanks.
just writing some coding and see where im at, you were right Chris, i was clearing the menu at the start of the loop which caused the flickering. Just writing up a new piece of code tonight and i'll post it once im done
Luke