[kh99]

I thought I understood. Or I guess I should say, if I didn't understand before, I still don't.

Anything is possible. The templates are stored in the database, so you could execute a query to change a template, then call the function to recompile it (since a compiled version is also stored in the database). Also, a forum might have more than one style, and each style may or may not have a separate version of that template, so you'd have to handle that. You'd also want to remove your change when the template is uninstalled. There isn't any support for doing this in vb, and I haven't heard of anyone actually doing it that way, but maybe you have a reason for doing it that way that I don't know about.

I think the usual thing to do is to write code to modify the template cache so that it appears that the template has changed, even though it won't look like it's changed in the template editor. That also avoids the style issue and the uninstall issue. I described how to do that in my previous post.

If I still don't understand, maybe someone else can help.