[AndrewD]

Thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can do.

This has been a living project now for 5 years, and indeed in the past, memory usage for text strings was an issue, perhaps less so now.

Concerning the linkage between LDM and vb features, initially I was determined to keep them completely separate, because otherwise it would be a full time job to keep things compatible (vb today is very different from vb in 2004 both in its features and coding style). A new release of LDM typically takes me a couple of months work, so I want to be quite sure what is happening with vb 4.x before starting the next round!