That is what i'm talking about Wilfried!

I found the article right away, but then I found an old discussion that was even more helpful:

http://www.mp2kmag.com/mappoint/disc...extend+activex

the vb project already had something pretty darn close to what i needed in the example form, but i've already started looking inside the classes and there is a lot of good stuff, I'm gonna look at this some more and I let you know of my progress.
Thanks for everything,
Jeremy