a snippet of my code. Sleep(20) GUICtrlSetData($mg_ctrl_TimeLabel,"Welcome. Today is the "&@MDAY&"."&@MON&"."&@YEAR&". The time is "&@HOUR&":"&@MIN&":"&@SEC) the problem is that it flickers. quite noticeably too. right now i'm trying to set the sleep value to something that is both fast to react to buttons being pressed and not to fast so that the message won't flicker as it updates. i've looked in the obvious (to me) parts of the help file for a s